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Firearms Control Act, 2000 (Act No. 60 of 2000)

Chapter 17 : Organisational structures

125. Central Firearms Register

 

(1) The Central Firearms Register must contain—
(a) the central firearms database;
(b) the central dealers database;
(c) the central manufacturers database;
(d) the central gunsmiths database;
(e) the central importers and exporters database;
(f) the central Official Institutions database; and
(g) any other information required to be kept by the Registrar in terms of this Act.

 

(2) The central databases referred to in subsection (1) must contain—
(a) such information as may be prescribed concerning—
(i) competency certificates, licences, authorisations and permits, as well as renewals and cancellations thereof;
(ii) applications for competency certificates, licences, authorisations and permits and any renewal applications which have been refused in terms of this Act;
(iii) transfers of firearms effected in terms of this Act;
(iv) imports and exports of firearms and ammunition in terms of this Act;
(v) the transport of firearms and ammunition in terms of this Act; and
(vi) the loss, recovery, theft or destruction of firearms.
(b) all original documentation submitted in support of all applications made in terms of this Act;
(c) a record of all licensed dealers, manufacturers, gunsmiths, importers and exporters, transporters for reward, accredited institutions, organisations and all firearms and ammunition in their possession;
(d) a record of all firearms in the possession of Official Institutions;
(e) a record of the acquisition, transfer, loss, theft or destruction in respect of firearms in the possession of Official Institutions;
(f) a record of all firearms recovered, forfeited to the State or destroyed;
(g) the fingerprints which have been submitted for purposes of an application in terms of this Act; and
(h) any other documentation and information as may be prescribed.