Members of forces, peace officers, etc. - Importation, etc., on behalf
of armed forces and police forces - Importation, etc., on behalf of
museum.

  98. (1)  Notwithstanding sections 95 to 97,

  (a) a member of the Canadian Forces, or of the armed forces of a
   state other than Canada, referred to in paragraph 92(1)(a),

  (b)  a peace officer or a person in the public service of Canada or
  employed by the government of a province, or

  (c)  an operator of or a person employed in a museum eslablished by
  the Chief of the Defence Staff or a museum approved for the purposes
  of this Part by the Commissioner or the Attorney General of the
  province in which it is situated is not guilty of an offence under
  this Act by reason only that the person imports or otherwise acquires
  possession in any manner of any weapon or component or part of a
  weapon in the course of the duties or employment of that person.

  (2) Notwithstanding sections 95 to 97, a person who, under the
authority of the Canadian Armed Forces or a police force thal includes
peace officers or public officers of a class referred to in paragraph
(1)(b), imports, manufactures, repairs, alters, modifies or sells
weapons or components or parts of weapons for or on behalf of the
Canadian Armed Forces or such a police force, is not guilty of an
offence under this Act by reason only that this person imports or
manufactures weapons or components or parts thereof or sells, barters,
gives, lends, transfers or delivers weapons or components or parts
thereof to the Canadian Armed Forces or such a police force.

  (3) Notwithstanding sections 95 to 97, a person who, under the
supervision of an operator of or a person employed in a museum
established by the Chief of the Defence Staff or a museum approved for
the purposes of this Part by the Commissioner or the Attorney General
of the province in which it is situated, imports, buys, repairs,
restores or maintains weapons or components or parts of weapons for or
on behalf of the museum is not guilty of an offence under this Act by
reason only that that person so imports, buys, repairs, restores or
maintains weapons or components or parts thereof or sells, barters,
gives, lends, transfers or delivers weapons or components or parts
thereof to the museum.

RS. 198S, c. 27 ( 1 st Supp.), s. 13; 1991 , c. 40, s. I I .