Firearms Act (S.C. 1995, c. 39)

AMENDMENTS NOT IN FORCE

• — 2015, c. 27, s. 10

  • 10 The Act is amended by adding the following in numerical order:

    • Obligation to provide information

      • 42.2 (1) A business may import a prohibited firearm or a restricted firearm only if the business completes the prescribed form containing the prescribed information and provides it by electronic or other means to the Registrar before the importation and to a customs officer before or at the time of the importation.

      • Information sharing

        (2) The Registrar and a customs officer may provide each other with any form or information that they receive under subsection (1).

• — 2015, c. 27, s. 15

  • 15 Subsection 83(1) of the Act is amended by adding the following after paragraph (d):

    • (d.1) all information provided to the Registrar under section 42.2;

• — 2023, c. 32, s. 15

  • 15 Subsection 2(1) of the Firearms Act is amended by adding the following in alphabetical order:

    protection order

    protection order protection order has the meaning assigned by the regulations but is intended to include any binding order made by a court or other competent authority in the interest of the safety or security of a person; this includes but is not limited to orders that prohibit a person from:

    • (a) being in physical proximity to an identified person or following an identified person from place to place;

    • (b) communicating with an identified person, either directly or indirectly;

    • (c) being at a specified place or within a specified distance of that place;

    • (d) engaging in harassing or threatening conduct directed at an identified person;

    • (e) occupying a family home or a residence; or

    • (f) engaging in family violence. (ordonnance de protection)

• — 2023, c. 32, s. 38(2)

  • • 38 (2) Paragraph 87(1)(c) of the Act is replaced by the following:

      • (c) every prohibition order and protection order, and any variation or revocation of such orders, of which the chief firearms officer is informed under section 89; and

• — 2023, c. 32, s. 40

  • 40 The heading before section 89 is replaced by the following:

    Reporting of Prohibition Orders and Protection Orders

• — 2023, c. 32, s. 41

  • 41 Section 89 of the Act is renumbered as subsection 89(1) and is amended by adding the following:

    • Protection order

      (2) Any competent authority that makes, varies or revokes a protection order shall have a chief firearms officer informed of the protection order or its variation or revocation within 24 hours.