Possession of prohibited weapon - Prohibited weapon in motor vehicle -
  Saving provision - Classes of persons -
  Large-capacity cartridge magazines - Idem.

  90. (1)  Every one who has in his possession a prohibited weapon

  (a)  is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment
  for a term not exceeding ten years; or

  (b)  is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

  (2) Every one who is an occupant of a motor vehicle in which he knows
there is a prohibited weapon

  (a)  is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment
  for a term not exceeding five years; or

  (b)  is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

  (3) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who comes into
possession of a prohibited weapon by operation of law and thereafter,
with reasonable dispatch, lawfully disposes thereof.

  (3.1) Subsection (1) does not apply in a province with respect to any
person designated by the Attorney General of the province as a person
who belongs to a class of persons who require a prohibited weapon
described in paragraph (c), (e) or (f) of the definition "prohibited
weapon" in subsection 84(1) or any component or part thereof for a
purpose that the Governor in Council prescribes by regulation to be an
industrial purpose, or to any person who is under the direct and
immediate supervision of such a person.

  (3.2)  Notwithstanding anything in this Act, no person is guilty of
an offence under subsection (1) by reason only that the person
possesses a prohibited weapon  described  in  paragraph  (f) of the
definition  of that  expression  in subsection 84(1), where

  (a)  that  person  has been  authorized  in  writing by the local
  registrar of firearms to be a person who may possess such a weapon
  for use in conjunction with a firearm that is suitable for use in
  shooting competitions designated by the Attorney General and is
  lawfully possessed by the person and where that person has complied
  with all conditions for the possession of that weapon that are
  prescribed by regulations or that are required by the local registrar
  of firearms in the particular circumstances and in the interests of
  the safety of the person or of any other person; or

  (b)  that person is a person who is designated for the purposes of
  paragraph 95(3)(b).

  (4) Subsection (2) does not apply to an occupant of a motor vehicle
in which there is a prohibited weapon where, by virtue of subsection
(3) or section 92, subsection (1) does not apply to the person who is
in possession of that weapon.

S.C. 1991 , c. 28, s. 6; 1991, c. 40, ss. 4(1), (2), 35.