FIREARMS (AMNESTY) [CH.214 – 1

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FIREARMS (AMNESTY) CHAPTER 214

FIREARMS (AMNESTY)

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS SECTION 1. Short title. 2. Power of Minister to declare moratorium.

FIREARMS (AMNESTY) [CH.214 – 3

––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– [Original Service 2001] STATUTE LAW OF THE BAHAMAS

CHAPTER 214

FIREARMS (AMNESTY) An Act to enable the Minister responsible for Public

Safety to promulgate by notice a period of amnesty within which persons may surrender to the police unlicensed firearms without penalty or liability of prosecution.

[Assent 30th July, 1993] [Commencement 3rd August, 1993]

1. This Act may be cited as the Firearms (Amnesty) Act, 1993 and shall be read and construed as one with the Firearms Act, which hereinafter is referred to as the principal Act.

2. On the coming into force of this Act the Minister responsible for Public Safety may by notice in the Gazette appoint a time, which shall not be less than one month, during which every person, having in his possession a firearm which is unlicensed under the provisions of the principal Act, may deposit the same at such place or at one of such places as may be designated in the said notice and on such deposit such firearm shall be confiscated and destroyed, but no proceeding shall be taken against such person under the principal Act in respect of his possession of that firearm.

16 of 1993

Short title. Ch. 213.

Power of Minister to declare moratorium.