A report supporting legislation to introduce airgun licensing in Scotland has been challenged by the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC).
The UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has welcomed a firearms licensing fees order which has today been laid before Parliament. The order contains Government proposals to increase the fee for the grant of a shotgun certificate from £50 to £79.50 with proportionate increases in other fees. The order will bring the new fees into effect from April 6 2015.
1. Why are fees going up?
Certificates fees have not increased since 2001. BASC has worked successfully to ensure that the increases are fair and reasonable and strongly resisted proposals to introduce unjustified higher fees which would have been a tax on shooting.
The UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), starts 2015 in a strong position to continue to promote and defend shooting with the announcement that its membership has risen to more than 140,000.
Government proposals to increase the fee for the grant of a shotgun certificate from £50 to £79.50 with proportionate increases in other licensing fees have been welcomed as fair by the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). If agreed these will be the first increases in fees for 13 years.
Firearms licensing fees must be set on the basis of sound evidence and due process in line with the principles of better regulation and Treasury guidelines according to the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC).
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has suggested that an increase in fees could “help to save” the jobs of one thousand police officers.
Staff from the North Wales Police firearms licensing team visited BASC’s head office near Wrexham to find out more about the association and shooting sports. Firearms enquiry officers and administration staff from North Wales Police were shown around the BASC offices and were given presentations by staff from a number Read more…
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