Restricted Weapon Registration Certificates Application for registration certificate - Permit to convey - Limitation - Idem - Idem - Changes - Time of ownership - Distribution of copies of application - Matters to be reported to Commissioner - Registration certificate - Limitation. 109. (1) An application for a registration certificate in respect of a restricted weapon shall be in a form prescribed by the Commissioner and shall be made to a local registrar of firearms (2) On receiving an application for a registration certificate, a local registrar offirearms may issue a permit under subsection 110(4) authorizing the applicant to convey the weapon to him for examination (3) A registration certificate may be issued only where a local registrar of firearms indicates on the copy of the application for the certificate that is sent to the Commissioner pursuant to subsection (5) that (a) the applicant for the certificate is the holder of a firearms acquisition certificate and is eighteen or more years of age, and (b) the restricted weapon to which the application relates bears a serial number sufficient to distinguish it from other restricted weapons or, in the case of an antique firearm that does not bear such a serial number, it is accurately described in the application, and further that the restricted weapon to which the application relates (c) is required by the applicant (i) to protect life, (ii) for use in connection with his lawful profession or occupation, (iii) for use in target practice under the auspices of a shooting club approved for the purposes of this section by the Attorney General of the province in which the premises of the shooting club are located or by an agent specially designated by that Attorney General in writing for the purpose of this subsection, or (iv) for use in target practice in accordance with conditions proposed to be attached to the permit to be issued in respect of the restricted weapon under subsection 110(1). (d) will form part of a gun collection of the applicant who is a genuine gun collector and who has complied with any regulations relating to the secure storage of, and the keeping of records respecting, restricted weapons made pursuant to subsection 116(1), or (e) is or is deemed pursuant to paragraph 116(f) to be a relic for the purposes of this Part. (4) A registration certificate may only be issued in respect of a restricted weapon described in paragraph (c) of the definition "restricted weapon" in subsection 84(1) where a local registrar of firearms, in addition to the matters referred to in subsection (3), indicates on the copy of the application that is sent to the Commissioner pursuant to subsection (5) that the restricted weapon will form part of a gun collection of the applicant who is a genuine gun collector whose collection includes one or more restricted weapons described in that paragraph. (4.1) A registration certificate may only be issued in respect of a restricted weapon described in paragraph (c.1) of the definition "restricted weapon" in subsection 84(1) where a local registrar of firearms, in addition to the matters referred to in subsection (3), (a) indicates on the copy of the application that is sent to the Commissioner pursuant to subsection (5) that the restricted weapon will form part of a gun collection of the applicant who is a genuine gun collector whose collection includes one or more restricted weapons described in that paragraph; and (b) describes on the copy referred to in paragraph (a) all alterations that have heen made to the restricted weapon to enable it to fire only one projectile with one pressure of the trigger (4.2) Where the description of the alterations referred to in paragraph (4.1)(b) changes in respect of a restricted weapon, the restricted weapon registration certificate issued in respect of the weapon is automatically revoked and the holder of that certificate shall immediately apply for a new registration certificate in respect of the weapon. (3) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, no registration certificate may be issued in respect of a restricted weapon described in paragraph (c.1) of the definition "restricted weapon" in subsection 84(1) to a person who did not lawfully possess such a restricted weapon at the time of the coming into force of this subsection (5) The local registrar of firearms by whom an application for a registration certificate is received shall (a) send one copy thereof to the Commissioner, (b) deliver one copy thereof to the applicant for the certificate; and (c) retain one copy thereof (6) Where a local registrar of firearms to whom an application for a registration certificate is made has notice of any matter that may render it desirable in the interests of the safety of the applicant or any other person that the applicant should not possess a restricted weapon, he shall report that matter to the Commissioner and he may, if the restricted weapon is conveyed to him for examination, hold the weapon pending the final disposition of the application for a registration certificate in respect thereof. (7) On receiving an endorsed copy of an application for a registration certificate, the Commissioner shall, subject to subsections (3) and (4) and section 112, register the restricted weapon described in the application and issue a restricted weapon registration certificate therefor to the applicant, in such form as the Commiisioner may prescribe, indicating thereon the place at which the holder of the certificate is thereby entitled to possess the restricted weapon. (8) No place other than the usual dwelling-house of the applicant for a registration certificate or his ordinary place of business may be indicated on the registration certificate as the place at which the holder of the certificate is thereby entitled to possess the restricted weapon to which the certificate relates. 1991, c. 40, s. 21(2), (3), (4).