Regulations - Tabling of regulations - Definition of "sitting day".

  116. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations

  (a)  regulating  the  handling,  secure  storage,  display  and
  advertising  of restricted weapons, firearms and ammunition by
  persons operating museums described  in  subsection  105(1) or
  carrying on  businesses described  in paragraph  105(1)(a) or
  subparagraph  105(2)(b)(i) and providing authority for police
  officers and police constables and members of any other class of
  persons designated for the purposes of a province by the Attorney
  General of that province to enter any place at which the museum is
  located or where any such business is carried on, at any time during
  ordinary business hours, for the purpose of inspecting the secure
  storage facilities therein and the manner in which restricted
  weapons, firearms and ammunition are handled and displayed in the
  course of the business;

  (a.1)  regulating the handling and secure storage or prohibited
  weapons or components or parts thereof referred to in paragraph
  105(1)(b) by persons carrying on businesses described in that
  paragraph, and providing authority for police officers and police
  constables and members of any other class of persons designated for a
  province by the Attorney General of that province to enter any place
  where any such business is carried on, at any time during ordinary
  business hours, for the purpose of inspecting the secure storage
  facilities therein and the manner in which such prohibited weapons
  and components or parts thereof are handled in the course of the
  business;

  (b) regulating  the  handling,  secure  storage  and  display  of
  weapons  by operators of and persons employed in museums approved for
  the purposes of this Part by the Commissioner or the Attorney General
  of the province in which they are situated;

  (c)  regulating  the  mail-order  sale  of  restricted  weapons,
  firearms  and ammunition  by  persons  carrying  on  businesses
  described  in  paragraph 105(1)(a) or subparagraph 105(2)(b)(i);

  (d)  providing for the secure handling, shipping, storage and
  transportation of firearms and ammunition, and prohibited weapons and
  components or parts thereof referred to in paragraph  105(1)(b), by
  persons engaged in businesses that include the transportation of
  goods;

  (e)  prescribing the fees to be paid to Her Majesty in right of
  Canada on application for certificates mentioned in section 106 or
  107 or for permits mentioned in subsection 110(5);

  (f)  prescribing classes of firearms that shall be deemed to be
  relics for the purposes of this Part;

  (g)  respecting the storage, display, handling and transportation of
  firearms;

  (h)  authorizing  the  destruction,  at  such  times  as  are
  specified  in  the regulations, of such records and inventories that
  are required by the provisions of this Part to be maintained as are
  designated in the regulations; and

  (i)  prescribing anything that is, by any provision of this Part,
  required to be prescribed by the regulations.

  (2) The Minister of Justice shall lay or cause to be laid before each
House of  Parliament,  at  least  thirty  sitting  days  before  its
effective  date,  every regulation  that  is proposed to be  made under
subsection (1) and every appropriate committee as determined by the
rules of each House of Parliament may  conduct  enquiries  or public
hearings  with  respect  to  the  proposed regulation and report its
findings to the appropriate House.

  (3)  For the purposes of this section, "sitting day" means, in
respect of either House of Parliament, a day on which that House sits.


S.C.  1991 , c. 28, s.  11 ; 1991 , c. 40, ss. 28, 41 .