Seizure - Exception - immediate supervision - Return - Forfeiture.

  102.  (1)  Notwithstanding section 101, a peace officer who finds

  (a)  a person in possession of any restricted weapon who fails then
  and there to produce, for inspection by the peace officer, a
  registration certificate or permit under which he may lawfully
  possess the weapon,

  (b)  a person under the age of sixteen years in possession of any
  firearm who fails then and there to produce, for inspection by the
  peace officer, a permit under which he may lawfully possess the
  firearm, or

  (c)  any person in possession of a prohibited weapon, may, unless
possession of the restricted weapon, firearm or prohibited weapon by
the person in the circumstances in  which  it is so found is authorized
by any provision of this Part, seize the restricted weapon, firearm or
prohibited weapon.

  (1.1)  A  person  under  the  age  of eighteen  years  is
authorized  to  be  in possession of a firearm where

   (a)  the  person  is  under the direct and  immediate supervision of
  another person who may lawfully possess the firearm; or

  (b)  the  person  possesses a  permit under which the person may
  lawfully possess the firearm.

  (2) Where a person from whom a restricted weapon, firearm or
prohibited weapon was seized under subsection (1), within fourteen
days after the seizure, claims it and produces for inspection by the
peace officer by whom it was seized,  or  any  other  peace  officer
having  custody  thereof,  a  registration certificate or permit under
which the person from whom the seizure was made is  lawfully entitled
to  possess  the  restricted weapon,  firearm  or prohibited weapon,
the restricted weapon, firearm or prohibited weapon shall forthwith be
returned to that person.

  (3) Where any restricted weapon, firearm or prohibited weapon that
was seized pursuant to subsection (1) is not returned as and when
provided by subsection (2), a peace officer shall forthwith take it
before a provincial court judge who may, after affording the person
from whom it was seized or the owner thereof, if known, an opportunity
to establish that he is lawfully entitled to the possession thereof,
declare it to be forfeited to Her Majesty, whereupon it shall be
disposed of as the Attorney General directs.

S.C. 1991, c. 28, s. 9; 1991 , c. 40, s. 14.