Importing or delivering prohibited weapon - Saving provision -
Exception - Saving provision - Idem.

  95.(1)  Every person who imports, exports, buys, sells,
barters, gives, lends, transfers or delivers a prohibited weapon or any
component or part designed exclusively for use in the manufacture or
assembly into 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) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a person who carries
on a business described in paragraph 105(1)(b) may export or
import for a purpose that the Governor in Council prescribes by
regulation, for the purposes of subsection 90(3.1), to be an
industrial purpose a prohibited weapon described in paragraph (c),
(e) or (f) of the definition "prohibited weapon" in subsection
84(1) or components or parts thereof, if that person does so
under and in accordance with an export permit or an import permit, as
the case may be, issued under the Export and Import Permits
Act

  (3) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who

  (a) carries on a business referred to in paragraph 105(1)(a)
  and who, on behalf of a  person  described  in  subsection
  90(3.2), imports, buys, sells, barters,  gives, lends,
  transfers or delivers a  prohibited  weapon  described in paragraph
  (f) of the definition of that expression in subsection 84(1);
  or

  (b)  manufactures a prohibited weapon described in paragraph
  (f) of the definition of that expression in subsection 84(1)
  for the purpose of exporting the prohibited weapon or of selling
  it in Canada to a person who may lawfully posess such a prohibited
  weapon, where the person who manufactures the prohibited weapon is
  designated for the purposes of this subsection by the Attorney
  General  of  the  province  in  which  the  prohibited  weapon  is
  manufactured.

  (4)  Notwithstanding  subsection  (1),  a person  who carries on  a
business described in paragraph 105(1)(b) may transfer to a person
designated by the Attorney General of a province pursuant to subsection
90(3.1) a prohibited weapon described in paragraph (c), (e) or (f) of
the definition "prohibited weapon" in subsection 84(1) or components or
parts thereof.

  (5) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a person who is authorized in
writing by a local registrar offirearms under paragraph 90(3.2)(a) may
import or export a prohibited weapon described in paragraph (f) of the
definition "prohibited weapon"  in  subsection  84(1),  and  to
which  the  authorization  applies,  for personal use in shooting
competitions designated under paragraph 90(3.2)(a).

1991,c.28,s.8;c.40,ss.9,37;1993,c.25,s.93.