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Incorporating amendments from the Policing and Crime Act 2017
Section 11A of the Firearms Act 1968 subsumes the rifle exemption at Section 16 of the Firearms Act 1968.
New Section 11A allows a non-certificate holder to borrow a rifle and use it in the presence of a certificate holder on private premises. The following criteria must be met
Notes:
In Scotland there is a general right to recreation on the foreshore (except on Orkney and
Shetland). This includes the shooting of wildfowl (using a shotgun only) and where the right has not been taken away by statute, eg. nature reserves.
Accordingly, the public may not use the foreshore to use or lend rifles. In Scotland the foreshore is the area of land between the high and low water marks of ordinary spring tides.
For further information see BASC’s Night Shooting Code of Practice [link https://basc.org.uk/cop/lamping/]
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