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Minister for Home Affairs may make regulations.
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2.—(1) The Minister for Home Affairs may by regulations made under this Act—
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(a) provide for the issue of firearm licences and prescribe the persons or classes of persons to whom firearm licences may be issued;
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(b) authorise specified persons or classes of persons to have in their possession, use, or carry, either generally or for particular purposes or subject to particular conditions, any firearm or ammunition or any particular class of firearm or ammunition without having a firearm licence;
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(c) prescribe the persons by whom and the terms and circumstances on and in which firearm licences may be issued, and the form and duration of such licences;
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(d) require every firearm in respect of which a firearm licence is issued to be marked with a number or other identification mark, and require such number or mark to be entered in the firearm licence and in the register of firearm licences;
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(e) provide for the establishment and maintenance of a register of firearm licences;
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(f) provide for the establishment and maintenance of a register of firearms dealers and prescribe the terms and circumstances on and in which a person may be registered in such register and on and in which such registration may be cancelled or refused;
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(g) place restrictions on the sale of firearms and ammunition, and prohibit the pawning of firearms;
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(h) place restrictions on the export, import, or removal from one place to another, of firearms and ammunition;
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(i) empower members of any police force in Saorstát Eireann to demand the production of and to inspect firearm licences, and, without warrant, to arrest persons suspected of committing offences against the regulations and to search places in which it is suspected that such offences are being committed;
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(j) confer on officers of Customs and Excise and officers of the Post Office the like powers in relation to firearms and ammunition as such officers respectively have by law in relation to other articles the export or import of which is prohibited or restricted;
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(k) prescribe the punishment which may be imposed on a person convicted of having committed a breach of any regulation made or continued under this Act, but so that no such punishment shall exceed the punishment authorised by this Act to be imposed on a person convicted of having committed a breach of any such regulation;
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(l) provide for the forfeiture of any firearm or ammunition in respect of which a breach of a regulation made or continued under this Act is committed.
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(2) Every regulation made under this section shall be forthwith laid before each House of the Oireachtas, and if either House shall, within twenty-one days on which such House has sat next after the regulation is laid before it, pass a resolution annulling the regulation, the regulation shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.
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