REGISTRATION OF ARMS.
AN AUCKLAND DECISION. Per Press Association . AUCKITAND, Feb. 8. Decision in test case, in which the validity of the regulations concerning the re-registration of firearms was questioned, was delivered by MrPoynton S.M., in the Police Court. The case arose out of the prosecution of a farmer for failing to make application fo> re-registration of certain firearms upon his change of address. Defendant gave notice by letter of his intentions to change his abode, but the letter did not reach the officials. The defence was that the regulations were ultra vires as they provided that reregistration should be effected at each change of address, whereas Section 9 of the Arms Act required a single regulation to take effect throughout the Dominion. The Magistrate held that the regulation relating to change of address and re-registration were valid.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 59, 9 February 1925, Page 4
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138REGISTRATION OF ARMS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 59, 9 February 1925, Page 4
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