TRANSFER OF GUNS
15. Transfer of guns.
(1) No person shall transfer any gun for the possession of which a licence has been issued under this Ordinance by way of sale or by way of pledge or gift to any other person save in accordance with a permit issued to the intending transferee by the licensing authority authorising such transfer.
(2) Every such permit shall be issued on payment of a fee of fifty rupees and shall be in accordance with form G in Schedule A, and shall lapse after the expiration of thirty days from the date thereof.
[S 15(2) am by s 10 of Act 22 of 1996.]
(3) Any person transferring any gun to any other person otherwise than in accordance with this section, and any person receiving any gun so transferred, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance, and shall on conviction be punishable for the first offence as provided in paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of section 22 and for the second or any subsequent offence as provided in paragraph (b) of that subsection.
16. Endorsement of licence on transfer.
(1) Every person transferring a gun in accordance with such permit shall deliver to the transferee with the gun the licence under which he is authorised to possess the gun, and the transferee shall, within ten days of obtaining the said gun and licence, apply to the licensing authority for the endorsement to himself of such licence, and upon the endorsement of such licence to the transferee by the licensing authority the transferee shall have all the rights and shall be subject to all the liabilities of the transferor under the said licence in lieu of the said transferor.
(2) The provisions of this section and of section 15 shall not apply to transfers to licensed dealers, but in the case of any such transfer it shall be the duty of the transferee to require as a condition of the transfer that the gun licence issued in respect of the gun shall be delivered to him with the gun, and within three days of the receipt of such licence to forward the same to the licensing authority endorsed with a memorandum of the transaction. A licensed dealer who fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.