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Establishes The Special Regime For The Acquisition, Possession, Use And Possession Of Firearms And Their Ammunition And Accessories Intended For Sporting Activities And Cultural-Historical Collection.

Original Language Title: Estabelece o regime especial de aquisição, detenção, uso e porte de armas de fogo e suas munições e acessórios destinadas a práticas desportivas e de coleccionismo histórico-cultural.

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DRAFT LAW NO. 231 /X

ESTABLISHES THE SPECIAL PROCUREMENT, DETENTION, USE AND

POSSESSION OF FIREARMS AND THEIR AMMUNITION AND ACCESSORIES,

INTENDED FOR SPORTS AND COLLECTIONIST PRACTICES

HISTORICAL-cultural

EXHIBITION OF REASONS

The activities related to sport shooting and gun collectionism, no

despite entrench in the common reason that led to the recent approval by the Assembly

of the Republic of a deep reform of the general regime applicable to the use and possession of

firearms, translating a thematic derivation with specifics that justify

special technical treatment.

That is the aim of the present legislative initiative, the content of which has come to be

proposed in the form of a new chapter to be added to the diploma whose final vote took place in the

day December 21, 2005.

In the touching of the sporting shot, it is about acauteling elementary principles of care and

control, in particular, with regard to the definition of the types of usable weapons, of the

abarched sports modalities, the licensing rules of the activity, well

as of the special relationship of proximity that must be guaranteed, depending on the

matter, in respect of sports agents in it actors, whether individual or

collective.

Already in the case of collectionism, notwithstanding Law No. 1/98 of January 8, it has provided for the

deadline of 45 days for the regulation of this activity of historical-cultural interest,

what did not come to fruition, we are facing matter whose legal treatment

systematized constitutes true innovation in Portugal. Beyond the aspects

related to the safety and control of the activity, it matters, still, to safeguard

in a properly ordered framework, a set of incentives aimed at promoting the

defence of historical heritage, equally relevant in the field of arms.

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They are thus created as a collector's and sports shooter's licences, observing in this

part of the Community Directive 91 /477/CEE and, as far as the shooters are concerned

sports, allows the respective federations to follow up the merit of their

practitioners, conferring the legal mechanisms for the development of some

shooting disciplines with worldwide expression.

New rules for the granting of licences of use and weapon possession are established.

minors for the practice of sport shooting, associating with the indispensable permit by

part of who exerts the respective parental power, the frequency with justified

harnessing compulsory schooling, award-winning solution that is thought to be

suitably fair and beneficial.

The ordering of the collector's activity, for its part, could not leave it

obey the principle of the responsibility of its agents, materialized in the

need for frequency of courses that technically enable a profiteer

pursuit of activity. In addition to its intrinsically lucid strand, it constitutes the

collectionism an obvious potential source of the conservation and cultural dissemination of the

historical heritage, with highlighting for museology, both static and dynamical,

being in this case, for example, the historical reconstitutions.

Thus:

Under the applicable constitutional and regimental provisions, the Deputies of the

parliamentary group of the undersigned Socialist Party present the following

draft law:

Chapter I

General and common provisions

Article 1º

Subject

1-A This Act establishes the special arrangements for the acquisition, detention, use and possession of

firearms and their ammunition and accessories, intended for sporting practices, and of

historical-cultural collectionism, as well as the type of organisation to be adopted by the

respective sports Federations and Associations of collectors.

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2-In all that this Law does not have in particular, it has application to general law and

respective regulations.

3-It shall apply, within the framework of this Law, with the adaptations that are provided for therein, the

criminal and counterordinance liability regime provided for in Chapter X of the law

that regulates the new legal regime of weapons and their ammunition.

Article 2º

Competencies

Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 10 (1) and Article 24º (2) of this Law,

compete with the National Director of Public Security Police (PSP) the licensing and

the granting of the necessary authorizations for the arrest, use and possession of a firearm and

its ammunition and accessories, intended for the exercise of the activities referred to in nº1 of the

previous article.

Article 3º

Types of licences

For the detention, use and possession of firearms intended for the practice of sporting shooting and

collectionism are granted by the National Director of PSP licences of the following

types:

a) Sports shooting licence;

b) Collector's licence.

Article 4º

General conditions for the allocation of licences

1-The licences provided for in the previous article are granted to citizens, greater of age,

approved in the competent medical examination of primarily psychical incidence and which

demonstrate to have idoneity for the effect, being this affixed to the terms and conditions

forecasted for the granting of a class B 1 use and weapon license of a weapon.

2-Without prejudice to the provisions of the preceding paragraph as to the remaining requirements, the licence of

collector only is granted to larger citizens of 21 years of age.

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3-The application for the granting of the licences provided for in the previous article is instructed

with proof of the prior issuance of a federative license of the responsibility of the

competent Federation or reasoned opinion of the Association of collectors

in which the applicant is shown to be registered, depending on the cases.

4-For the practice of modalities or shooting disciplines recognized by the respective

International federations is permitted, exclusively for sporting purposes, the

grant of leave to minors with minimum ages of 14 years, in the case of guns

long soulful soulful pipe, and 16 years for the stirred soured barrel guns that

use anellar percussion ammunition, provided that they are shown to be registered in a Federation

of Tiro with recognition on the part of the Olympic Committee of Portugal, and meet the

following conditions:

a) Frequentem, with proven use, compulsory education;

(b) they are authorised, by whom to exercise parental power, to the practice of sporting shooting;

c) They have not been the target of educational tutelary measure by fact typified in the criminal law.

Article 5º

Validity and Renewal

1-The licences provided for in Article 3º have a validity of five years.

2-A The renewal of the licences is dependent on the verification of the requirements applicable to the

respective concession.

Article 6º

Ceding to loan title

1-A yielding by loan of firearms for sporting purposes and

collectionism, is permitted under the terms and conditions generically provided for in the law

regulating the new legal regime of weapons and their ammunition, and in accordance with the rules

specifically provided for in this article.

2-Can be subject to ceding, by loan, the weapons of classes C and D, since

which are intended for their use in drills or sports evidence, by staying such

reserved possibility, in the case of weapons that are the property of associations or

sports federations, to the shooters who in them will find themselves concretely affiliated.

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3-Collector's licence holders and collectors ' associations can

give in by borrowing arms from the collection that are from your property, provided that

intended for exhibition at collection arms fairs or in museums, public or

private.

4-Museums of the Associations of collectors can receive from loan the

weapons from the collections of the collector's licence holders, as well as those that are

in the possession of other public or private entities, targeting them, exclusively, the

exposure to the public.

Article 7º

Cassation

1-In cassation of the licences set out in Article 3º, the scheme provided for in the

permits for use and weapon possession of classes B 1.

2-A the entity responsible for the sports shooter or the collector, shall

communicate immediately to the National Directorate of PSP (DN/PSP), any facts or

circumstances liable to involve the initiation of the cassation tendon of the

respective license.

Article 8º

Technical qualifications

The approvals, opinions and certifications that, in the terms and for the effects of the present

law, be it the competence of the federations and associations in it provided for, are always

performed by technically enabled personnel and as such identified, according to

the concrete nature of the treated subjects.

Chapter II

Sport shooting

Article 9º

Definitions

1-Sportsmanlike shooting:

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a) Of precision , what is subject to international competitive framing, being

practiced with firearms with stirred soured pipe, on specific targets, in

that the shooter is in a fixed position and in places approved by the competent

federation;

b) Dynamic , what is subject to international competitive framing, being

practiced with firearms with stirred soured pipe, on specific targets, in

that the shooter shifts to the execution of the shot;

c) Of recreation , what is subject to the national competitive framework and

international, being practiced with arms of reduced caliber with soulful barrel

or gutted, within the legal limitations provided for in this diploma;

d) With long guns of soulful soulless pipe , what is subject to framing

competitive, national or international, being practiced from one or more posts

of shot or on a hunting pathway, and executed on specific targets.

2-For the purposes of the application of points (a), (b) and (d) of the preceding paragraph, they consider themselves to be targets

specific to those determined by the national or international instances that tutelize the

respective modalities or disciplines.

Article 10º

Sports shooting federations

1-The shooting Federations are the entities that superintending in the practice of shooting

sports, provided that recognized in that quality by the public entity that guardiits the

national sport, and by the Olympic Committee of Portugal, in the case of modalities or

Olympian shooting disciplines.

2-. The shooting Federations are recognized as the entities that regulate the shot

sports and who have the competence to comment on the ability of the shooters

for the use of weapons to that effect, by giving them to decide on the allocation of the

federative licences for the practice of the modalities or disciplines developed under the

your égide, and issue opinions on the granting of the sports shooting licences.

Article 11º

Competencies

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1-In the development of its tasks within the framework of the practice and development of the

sports shooting, it is also incumbent on the shooting Federations:

(a) issuing opinions, with a binding character, on the technical and technical conditions

safety of shooting careers and shooting fields where sport proofs are held and

respective surrounding areas;

b) Define and regulate the parameters of the allocation of federative licences;

c) Define, within the legal limits, the types of weapons, calibers and own ammunition

for the practice of modalities, and their disciplines, developed under their

aegis;

d) Set, within the legal limits, the n. maximum of arms and ammunition that may

be acquired for the practice of modalities, and their disciplines;

(e) Require the clubs annual presentation, in a traditional or electronic format, of

maps of consumption of the acquired ammunition, when dealing with ammunition from

purchase conditioned by law, as well as keep them properly updated;

(f) to demand the submission of the arms manifest booklets to the federated shooters,

in the drills and competitions developed under its aegis, with the exception of the

elements of the Armed Forces, Military Forces and Security Forces or

equals, and sports licences;

(g) require annually, as a condition of affiliation or renewal, a certificate,

resulting from medical examination, which makes proof enough of the physical and psychic aptitude of the

practitioner and to declare the non-existence of any counter-indications.

(h) require all sports officers who may be present in the areas

reserved to the practice of modality, the entitlement of valid sports insurance and

behold;

(i) to revoke the licences per se granted and to seize the respective titles.

2-Federations can sign up in Federations or International Associations

recognized as responsible for regulation and direction at the global level of

other sports shooting modalities, the adoption of which is deemed to be of interest to the

pursuit of its objectives.

Article 12º

Obligations

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For control of validity of sports shooting licences granted under the terms of

provisions of Article 3º (a) of this Law, shall the Federations communicate to the

DN/PSP, in any support:

a) A map with the entirety of its affiliates, monthly or annually,

as it deals with gutted soured pipe guns, or from soulful barrel guns

lisa, indicating, for each, the name, n. and type of the sports license and club to which

belongs;

b) Anually, a map where they build the shooters who have lost their licences

federatives, or whose type has been changed, by subsequent accreditation or by

non-compliance with the standards set for its concession or maintenance;

c) The emergence, in drills and in competitions organized under its aegis, of weapons

in illegal or unmanifest situation;

d) All federative regulations that refer to the granting of licences and the

inherent conditions of accreditation and maintenance.

e) Inform immediately the DN/PSP, without embargo of the provisions of (b), of the loss

of licences that arise from disciplinary or other sanctions, which they determine,

cumulatively, the loss of the right of use of the corresponding weapons.

Article 13º

Types of federative licences

1-For the practice of sport shooting, they are granted, by the respective federations, the

following licenses:

a) federative licence A: practice of precision sport shooting disciplines, in which

whether they use pistols, revolvers or compressed air carabines of caliber 4.5mm and

pistols, revolvers or caliber carabines up to 22, provided that the ammunition is from

anellar percussion;

b) Federative licence B: practice of precision sport shooting disciplines, in which

whether they use pistols or revolvers using ammunition from the calibers 32 S&W Long

Wadcutter and 38 Special Wadcutter, caliber carabines between 6 mm and 8 mm, and weapons

short and long black powder;

c) federative licence C: practice of precision sport shooting or dynamic, where if

use pistols or caliber revolvers up to 11 ,4mm or 45, carabines of caliber between

6mm and 8 mm and carabines of caliber ordinance up to 7.92 mm;

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d) federative license D: practice of the recreational sport shooting, where they use

carabines, pistols or compressed air revolvers of the calibers allowed by law,

as well as carabines, pistols or revolvers up to the 22 caliber provided that the ammunition is

of anellar percussion, and still shotguns up to caliber 9 mm;

e) federative licence E: sport shooting practice with shotgun, of the calibers and

permitted loads for the practice of the disciplines covered by this license, with the

specifications determined by the respective Federation.

2-The federative licences are valid for the period of one year, being documented by

own model card of the respective Federation, personal and incommunicable, where

conscries the n. of the sports shooting license, the name of its holder, the club representing and

the sporting season to which it relates, coincident with the calendar year.

Article 14º

Granting and maintenance of federative licences

1. The granting of the federative licences is done by fulfilling the following

conditions:

a) licences A, D and E are granted to the shooters who sign up for the first

time in the Federation that tubs the modality or discipline, being subjected to a

prior examination of suitability for the granting of the respective licence;

b) The B licence is granted to the shooter who demonstrates, cumulatively:

i) To be a holder of federative shooting licence A for the minimum period of two years;

ii) To have participated annually in two or more proofs of the official calendar of the

respective Federation, and have obtained the constant access scores of the

regulation of licences in force in it;

iii) Not to have been the target of federative sanction for violation of the safety rules or

by anti-sporting practices;

iv) When you intend to practice shooting with black powder weapons, it was also

approved in appropriate course, delivered by trainers accredited by the

respective Federation.

c) The C licence is granted to the shooter who demonstrates, cumulatively:

i) To be a holder of a federative licence B for the minimum period of two years;

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ii) To have participated, annually, in two or more evidence of the official calendar of the

respective Federation, and have obtained the constant access scores of the

regulation of licences in force in it;

iii) Not to have been the target of federative sanction for violation of the safety rules or

by anti-sporting practices;

iv) When you intend to practice shooting in the dynamic shooting modality, have also

frequented with harnessing a suitable course, provided by the club to which

belongs, and subsequently, to obtain use in examination with curriculum plan

approved by the respective Federation;

2-A The use of the weapons purchased under the sports shooting licences only is

permitted in places appropriate to the practice of the modality or disciplines to which they refer

and approved by the respective federation.

3-The members of the Armed Forces, Military Forces and Security Forces or

equistops, can access the federative licence C upon approval in examination

promoted by the respective Federation, regardless of the prior title of the

other sports licences.

4-Federative licence holders have to substantiate, annually, for the purposes of

respective renewal, participation in official competitions.

5-A The validity of federative licences is always conditioned by the issuance and effective

of the licences provided for in point (a) of Article 3º of this diploma.

Article 15º

Aptitude exams for the granting of federative leave

1-The prior examination of aptitude for habilitation to a federative shooting permit

sports is the responsibility of the respective federations, and shall cover the

following subjects and objectives:

a) the legal regime of weapons and their ammunition;

(b) regulation of the use of weapons for sporting purposes;

c) Safety in handling;

d) Notions of ballistics and ballistics of effects;

e) Technical execution.

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2-The process of evaluation is the responsibility of the respective federations, within the

its competences, is composed of the following successive and phased phases, when

applicable:

a) For the issuance of the federative licences A and D:

i) Written test on the constant theoretical matter of paragraph 1 of this article;

ii) Practical handling of handling, having the candidate to perform correctly the

security operations, of loading and unloading a pistol and a carabine of

caliber .22 LR, aim in a safe direction, place the weapon safely,

check the chamber and land the open weapon and appointed equally in a direction

secure.

iii) Practical technical execution test, verifying that the candidate is able to perform

in safety a concentration of 10 shots with 20 cm to 10 meters, using a

compressed air pistol or 10 cm in diameter, under the same conditions, using

a carabine of compressed air.

b) For the issuance of federative license E;

i) Written test on the constant theoretical matter of paragraph 1 of this article;

ii) Practical test focusing on the transport of the weapons

iii) Practical test on the safety and handling of weapons, their loading and

unloading

iv) Test run practice.

3-A prior instruction of the candidates and their presentation at the places determined for

the tests are the responsibility of the Clubs to which they belong.

4-The dates and venue of the tests, as well as the nominal list of the candidates, are

previously communicated to DN/PSP.

5-A The carrying out of the tests referred to in this article is accompanied by a

element of the PSP, to whom it competes to ensure compliance with the law.

Article 16º

Validity and revocation of federative licences

1-The federative licences lapse when:

a) Do not be renewed until the date of their term;

b) Do not be issued or cesse, for any reason, the licence referred to in paragraph (a) of the

article 3º of this diploma;

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c) Orun the dissolution of the club in which the holder shows off.

2-The federative licences are revoked in the following cases:

a) If your holder is the target of federative disciplinary sanction for violation of the rules of

safety or for anti-sport practices;

b) If your holder, at will, irresponsibility or manifests disability,

causing damage to the infrastructure or other goods under guardia or liability of the

respective Federation or of the Clubs their affiliates, or in them use weapons or ammunition

inappropriate;

c) If your holder has not complied with the legal determinations relating to your

maintenance;

d) If your holder ceases sports activity;

Article 17º

Acquisition of weapons and ammunition

1-It is up to the respective Federation, the application of the clubs and their associations,

present to the DN/PSP the applications, in the name of natural or legal persons, to

acquisition of firearms with gutted soured pipe and its ammunition.

2-Of the applications relating to the weapons referred to in the preceding paragraph, the following are listed

elements:

a) Identification of the holder in the name of whom the weapon is going to be acquired;

b) Identification of the club where the acquirer is enrolled, in case it is a person

singular;

c) The type of weapon intended, the brand, the model and the caliber, accompanied by

figurative elements, when requested, as well as to appear mandatory on the

your sporting aptitude;

d) Type of federative license possessed by the acquirer, when natural person;

e) Comoration of the idoneity of the President and vowels of the direction of the shooting clubs,

when the weapons are acquired in the name of these.

3-Of the applications relating to the purchase of ammunition of more than .22 caliber, are listed

following elements:

a) Quantitative intended, with the indication of the caliber and type of projectile installed;

b) Identification of the shooters to which they are intended;

c) Quantitative intended for the club or association for the training of shooters.

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4-The subsequent acquisitions of ammunition become dependent on the presentation of the maps

of consumption as referred to in point (e) of Article 11º (1).

5-In all cases referred to in the preceding n. s.

existence of appropriate safety conditions for the guard of arms and ammunition,

whose authorization to purchase is required.

6-A refusal to issue the authorisations provided for in this article is always

substantiated, in the legally applicable terms.

Article 18º

Characteristics of own weapons for sport

1. Considering guns fit for the practice of sporting shooting in their different

modalities and disciplines:

a) Tiro sport of precision:

i) Compressed Air: pistols, revolvers or carabines of 4.5mm caliber, with

adjustable point apparatus, using air or gas as a booster;

ii) Tiro with bullet, up to .22 gauge of anellar percussion: pistols, revolvers and carabines

that use only ammunition with officially admitted initial speeds,

smooth, non-expansive lead projectable with adjustable pond system and

mechanism of firing adjustable, single shot or repetition in the carabines, and of

simple, repetitive or semi-automatic shot in the pistols or revolvers, whose

total length cannot be less than 220mm;

iii) Tiro with bullet in caliber .32 and .38: pistols or revolvers with length

total not less than 220mm, which use, exclusively, ammunition of the calibers

.32 S&W Long Wadcutter to .38 Special Wadcutter, with pontery system

adjustable and mechanism of firing adjustable;

iv) Tiro with bullet, in calibers between 6mm and 8mm: carabines using ammunition

between 6mm and 8mm, with fully encamped projectiles (FMJ) non-perforating,

arsonists or dashed, with adjustable and simple shooting system or

of repetition;

b) Recreation sport tiro: all weapons of propulsion by compressed air or gas,

of bullet of the caliber up to .22 of anellar percussion and soulful soul pipe down to the caliber of

9mm;

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c) Dynamic sports Tiro: Pistols or revolvers using ammunition of the caliber

minimum 9x19mm or .38 and maximum 11 ,4mm or .45, with lead projectiles or

fully encamped (FMJ type) of ogival or trunk-conical profile, with the tip

rounded, with the velocities at the mouth of pipe determined by the regulations

international modality, with the minimum length of the pipes of 105mm in the

pistols and 4 " (101 ,6mm) on the revolvers;

d) Pistol Sport 9mm: pistols of calibre 9mm, which use lead projectiles or

fully encamped (FMJ) of ogival or trunk-conical profile, with the tip

rounded off, with a distance between miras superior 153mm, not being allowed to

application of extenders for your support;

e) Black pólvora: originals or replicas of industrial production of gunpowder weapons

black from mecha, pederneira or percussion, accepted by the international body

regulator, with the exclusion of any prototype, yet certified in bank of

official evidence.

f) Ordinance: carabines and pistols whose use for campaigning or garnishing has been

determined by the army formerly at 1960, with the calibers understood

between 6 and 8 mm for the shotguns and between 7.65 and 9 mm for the pistols.

g) Sport tiro with shotguns: all long guns with soulful soul pipe,

recognized by the respective Federation as their own for sport shooting

developed under your aegis.

2. Without prejudice to the provisions of the preceding paragraph of this Article, they are still considered

apt for sport shooting all civil use weapons that meet homologous

by national or international sporting bodies.

3-When required by the respective regulations, the weapons intended for the practice of the

precision shot and dynamic shooting must possess a minimum trigger weight for

carry out the firing.

Article 19º

Maximum gun limit per shooter

1-Considering the type of federative license possessed, as well as the modalities and

disciplines practiced, the following limits of detention establish themselves:

a) For federative licence holders B, two weapons per discipline or modality;

b) For federative licence holders C:

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i) In the dynamic sport shooting, three guns per division up to the maximum of six weapons;

ii) In the precision sport shooting, two weapons for the sport pistol modality 9

mm and four weapons of ordinance, two by discipline;

c) For federative license holders D, four weapons;

2-For the purposes set out in this Article, the sets or systems for conversion of

calibers are accounted for as a weapon.

Article 20º

Master Shooter

1. The Federations that tutele the sporting shot of precision or dynamical can ascribe

the distinction of Master Shooter to practitioners who have achieved scores

relevant in the modalities practiced under your aegis.

2. To the Atiratory Masters is allowed to purchase weapons beyond the limits

set out in Article 19º, provided that appropriate to the practice of the modality in which

have obtained the distinction.

3. To the Atiratory Masters who cease their competitive activity, as long as they do not

have been the subject of federative disciplinary sanction, administrative cassation,

judicial conviction for the practice of crime or to have been applied for security measure

that prevents them from detaining firearms in their possession, is allowed to keep guns

acquired in that capacity, under the legal provisions relating to detention

domiciliary, or upon reclassification to another applicable license, under information

of the respective Federation or Collectors Association, within their

competencies.

Article 21º

Veteran shooters, incapacitated or who voluntarily cease their activity

To shooters that by age, or by suitably proven physical impossibility,

it is not possible to maintain sports activity, as well as to all those who cease

voluntarily its activity, the scheme provided for in paragraph 3 of the article may be applied

previous.

Article 22º

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Recharge

1. The ammunition recharge is authorised to the holders of the federative licences B, C and E, and

be governed by the provisions of this article.

2-A the purchase of powder and fulminants is made upon application directed at the

DN/PSP and previously informed by the respective Federation that it should draw up a

individual registration of each shooter;

3-A sale by armeiro or powder watertight and fulminants for recharging can only

occur upon substantiation of possession of the licences referred to in paragraph 1, and of the

authorization issued by DN/PSP, being registered on a map of its own.

4-The rechargeable ammunition is intended exclusively for the sport's use of the shooter

which produced them, being only allowed for the purpose of using powder and

fulminants of industrial production.

5-No embargo of the quantities of components of which the shooter possesses, is prohibited

the possession in excess of five hundred ammunition recharged at each time, owing the

same to be registered on the consumption map of the shooter, certified by his

Federation.

6-A guard and conservation of refill components by the clubs depends on the preview

certification of the necessary conditions by DN/PSP, which will also define the

storable quantities.

Article 23º

Black powder

1. The acquisition and use of the inflammable components for black powder weapons is

permitted to clubs and federative licence holders B and E, enabled with the

course referred to in paragraph (b) of Article 14º (b) (b) of Article 14º, the

provisions of paragraphs 2 a to 4 of the previous article and staying, still, subject to the following

conditions:

a) The maximum amount of gunpowder acquired annually by shooters in the name

individual cannot exceed the 1,000 grams, by maximum parcellaring acquisitions of

500 grams;

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b) Saved at the time of the acquisition, the transport of quantities of

black powder exceeding 200 grams, and should always be carried in

individual containers with the maximum capacity of 5 grams;

c) Saved at the time of the acquisition, the transport of quantities is not permitted

greater than 100 fulminants, and a suitable container shall be used;

2-For the execution of international competitions, the organization of the proof providence the

supply of powder and fulminants to the participants, upon authorization

express from DN/PSP, under duly substantiated proposal of the respective

Federation.

Chapter III

Collectionism of firearms and their ammunition

Article 24º

Associations of gun collectors

1-The Associations of collectors are the entities entitled to the organization of the

historical study, conservation, preservation and museological exposure of weapons and their

accessories.

2-The Associations of collectors are accredited by dispatching the Minister of

Internal Administration.

Article 25º

Competencies

In the development of its assignments, it competes especially with the Associations of

recognized collectors:

(a) issuing opinions, with a binding character, on the historical, technical interest or

artistic subject of the thematic of the collections of its affiliates;

b) Organise colloquia, seminars and lectures on the subjects under study,

notably the knowledge and preservation of the national historical heritage;

c) Organize and take over the technical direction of Museums as well as cultural samples

and historical;

d) Promote historical reconstitutions;

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e) Advise, where it is requested by DN/PSP, the work of peritage

and classification of weapons;

f) Check and certify the safety conditions in which the collections are located

of their affiliates;

g) Assuring, as a condition of membership, the suitability of its members;

(h) Comment, on the historical, technical or artistic interest, as well as its

thematic insertion, of any weapon whose acquisition is intended by one of its

filtered;

i) To ensure the realization of courses and tests concerning the knowledge for the

detention of a collector's license;

j) Communicate to DN/PSP the emergence of weapons in illegal or unmanifest situation;

Article 26º

Certificate of Aptitude

1-It is the responsibility of the duly accredited Associations, the evaluation of the

applicants for the granting of a collector's licence, whose approval in their own examination

confers on them a certificate of aptitude.

2-The examination referred to in the preceding paragraph is aimed at the following subjects:

a) the legal regime of arms and ammunition;

(b) regulations relating to detention, use and possession of a weapon;

c) Safety of the handling of all types of firearms of civil use;

d) Knowledge concerning the mechanisms of firing and its historical evolution;

e) Knowledge concerning the studies of the evolution of the ballistics of effects;

3-The evaluation process is composed of the following successive and eliminating phases:

a) written test on the constant theoretical matter of the preceding paragraph of this article;

b) Practical handling of handling, having the candidate to perform correctly the

security operations, of loading and unloading various types of weapons from

deal with the chosen theme, aim in a safe direction, place the weapon

safely, check the chamber and land the open weapon and pointed equally

in a secure direction.

c) practical test of technical execution;

4-It shall apply to the tests referred to in the paragraphs above the provisions of paragraphs 3 a to 5 of the

article 15º.

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5-Stay dispensed from the tests referred to in the preceding paragraph, all those interested that already

possess, or are exempted from possessing, license to use and possession of weapon of the

classes B and B 1.

Article 27º

Thematic collections

Thematic collections of non-obsolete ammunition up to two copies are admissible

by type, as well as the collectionism of alarm guns, firearms replicas,

unutilized firearms and white weapons.

Article 28º

Conditions of safety

1-A The granting of a collector's licence obliges the person concerned to possess conditions of

security for the guard of your firearms.

2-In case the person concerned does not pose any security conditions for the domicile custody of the

your weapons, can the same be raised or exhibited at the Museum premises

of the Association where to show themselves filleted.

3-Applying to the collectors of firearms, with the due adaptations, the

regulated safety rules for arms trading establishments and

ammunition.

4-All shootings carried out with collection weapons must be recorded in book

own, provided by the Association of collectors, and annually seen and

certified by DN/PSP.

5-Sports events with collection guns are only allowed in encounters

of collectors or at commemorative parties, owing the same proceeding under the

égide of a recognized collectors ' Association and respected the conditions

of safety required of sports shooters.

6-In the historical reconstitutions only the saves shot is allowed.

7-The holders of a collector license may apply for the DN/PSP a

license of use and weapon possession of class B1, exclusively for defense purposes

personnel either in the transport of collection weapons, or in the respective domicile when

the collection finds itself seated at your residence.

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Article 29º

Conditions of security of the Museums

1-Museums of collectors ' Associations are authorized by dispatch of the

National Director of PSP.

2-The Museums of the collectors ' Associations are endowed with exhibitors

inviolable and mechanisms and safety systems that allow for surveillance

permanent.

3-Where technically possible, one or more essential parts must be removed

or other mechanisms, from firearms on display to the publico.

4-The facilities are to be still donated from grids on the windows and security door in the

access to the outside.

5-Museums may contain a section for restoration, repair and preservation of the parts

that are part of their estate, as well as of their affiliates.

6-Employees of Museums, who may have contact with weapons, must possess

suitability sufficient for the purpose, to be affixed to this in the terms of the provisions of

obtaining a permit of use and weapon possession of type B 1.

7-Are applicable to the Museums of the collectors ' Associations, as to the installations

where they keep the weapons, in the applicable part, the safety conditions required for the

arms and ammunition trading establishments.

Article 30º

Acquisition of firearms

1-Collector's licence holders may acquire for their collection, in

function of the prosper-themed subject, weapons of classes B, C, D, E, F and G.

2-A The issue of purchase authorisation, when required, is conditional on the

verification of the conditions referred to in Section I, Chapter III, of the General Law on

weapons and their ammunition, as well as proof of the historical, technical or artistic interest

of the said weapon, upon declaration by the Association of collectors in which the

even if it shows filleted.

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3-The Associations of collectors with Museum may apply for permission from

purchase of any weapons of the types referred to in paragraph 1 of this article, provided that

are the same intended solely for the exhibition.

4-License holders of collectors may also apply for permission from

purchase of weapons solely intended to be exhibited in Museum.

5-When it is in question the purchase and recovery for the national historical heritage

of weapons from classes B, C or D, Portuguese, or produced under order

portuguese, acquired in international legal trade, must DN/PSP ensure in

deadline for the fulfillment of the legal conditions of import or transfer which,

for the purpose and attest the concrete circumstances, if shown to be appropriate.

6-Mediant authorization of DN/PSP, can the Associations of collectors

arranging fairs, cultural samples and arms sales auctions with historical interest,

being admitted to participate and bidding solely persons qualified with the licence

of collectors or with another that allows you the possession of the intended weapon.

7-In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph the weapon or weapons bid shall be delivered only after the

course of the process of issuing the competent purchasing authorisation.

Article 31º

Weapons using obsolete ammunition

The weapons using obsolete ammunition, namely the Annex to the

General law on weapons and their ammunition can be held, regardless of the

titration of a collector's license, in the following cases:

a) At the domicile of the possessor;

b) in public or private museological spaces;

c) In manifestations of artistic character;

d) At fairs, cultural samples and arms sales auctions organized in the terms

of the provisions of paragraph 6 of the preceding Article.

Article 32º

Black powder

1. On the acquisition and use of the flammable components for black powder weapons, it is

applicable the provisions of Article 23º, with the following specifications:

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a) The habilitation required for the shot with black powder weapons is given upon

approval in appropriate course provided by trainers accredited by the respective

Association of collectors;

b) The maximum amount of powder to be acquired annually by each of the

collectors can't exceed the 3,000 grams, by maximum partial takeovers

of 1,000 grams;

c) Without prejudice to the rules of accommodating the components and the initial acquisition,

it is not permitted to transport quantities of black powder and fulminants

higher than, respectively, 500 grams, and 500 fulminants;

2-For the execution of historical manifestations or reconstitutions or events

sports may be authorised by DN/PSP the acquisition by the Association of

collectors of powder quantities higher than those referred to in paragraph (b) of the n.

previous, as well as their yielding to foreign participants.

Chapter IV

Criminal and counterordinate liability

Article 33º

Applicability

They apply, in the present scope, the standards provided for in Chapter X of the General Law on

weapons and their ammunition, as well as the rules set out in this Chapter.

Article 34º

Incidental probation of interdiction of the exercise of official activity

1-Can incur the temporary interdiction of performance of any posts in the

federations and associations provided for in this diploma, the leaders, responsible

or representatives of those, who are condemned, on a dolly basis and under any

form of participation, by the practice of crime or counterordinance committed with

serious deviation from the scope, object and social purpose of the activity pursued

by the respective collective entity or with serious violation of the duties and rules that

discipline the exercise of the activity.

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2-A interdiction has the minimum duration of 6 months and maximum of 10 years, not counting

for this purpose the time in which the convict has been subject to measure of

coeriton or in penalty enforcement or execution of safety measure

deprivation of liberty.

3-The exercise of the activity interdicted in the terms of this Article, as well as the

practice of any act in which the same translates, is punishy as a crime of

qualified disobedience.

4-To the interdiction referred to in this Article shall apply to the provisions of paragraph 3 of the article

90º of the General Law on guns and their ammunition.

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Article 35º

Specific counterordinational liability

1-The exercise of activity without preexistence recognition or accreditation to

which refer to, respectively, paragraph 1 (1) and Article 24 (2), is punished with

a fine of 1500 a to 15000.

2-Who does not observe the provisions of the following provisions of this diploma:

a) In Article 31, it is punished with a fine of 2000 a to 20000

(b) in Article 28 (1), it is punished with a fine of 1500 a to 15000;

(c) in Articles 13, 14, in Article 28 (5) and (6) (a) to (c) of paragraph 1 of the

article 23 and in points (b) and (c) of Article 32 (1), is punished with fine of 700 a

7000;

d) In paragraphs 2 a to 4 of Article 6, in Article 8 and (j) of Article 25, it is punished with

a fine of 600 a to 6000;

(e) in Article 7 (2), (e) (h) of Article 11 (1), (a), (b),

(c) and (e) of Article 12 and paragraph 4 of Article 28, is punished with a fine of 250 a to 2500;

3-For the purposes of previous n. s, they are jointly and jointly and severally responsible the

elements of the direction of the federation or association or, if there are no social bodies,

the signatories of the constitutive document of the said entities.

Chapter V

Final and transitional provisions

Article 36º

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Special authorizations

1-The import and export of weapons, essential parts of firearms, is permitted,

ammunition, cartridges or casings with fulminants or only fulminants by the

shooting federations and associations of collectors with museum as well as holders

of sports or collector's licences, provided that authorized by the National Director

of the PSP, observing, with the necessary adaptations, the scheme provided for in the Chapter

VII of the General Law on weapons and their ammunition.

2-A conducting sports evidence and the realization of cultural initiatives or

historical reconstitutions of recognized interest, the nature of which is not shown to be adjusted

to the provisions of this degree, they are the subject of their own authorisation, granted by the

National Director of PSP, upon analysis of the security conditions of the event,

appreciation of the suitability of the participants and the quality of the respective promoter.

Article 37º

Duty of information

1-The shooting federations and the associations of collectors communicate

obligatorily to DN/PSP the identity of the holders of the respective social bodies and

prove their suitability, as well as specially-enabled technicians who

have at their service.

2-Compete to the shooting federations the fulfillment of the obligation laid down in the preceding n.

in the cases of their federated associations and the clubs in these enrolled.

3-When to proceed to elections for the social bodies of the entities referred to in the

this article, the shooting federations and associations of collectors communicate to the

DN/PSP to its new composition, within the 60 days subsequent to suffrage.

Article 38º

Listings of federated clubs

Sports Federations must deliver at DN/PSP, within 180 days of the

entry into force of this diploma, the listing of all associations and clubs in them

federates as well as the listing of their shooters and the types of sports licences of

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who are possessors, duly converted to the federative licences, referred to

in the present diploma.

Article 39º

Application for allocation of collector's licence

1-Together with the application for the allocation of the collector's licence, and in the

period of 180 days counted from the entry into force of this Law, it shall be attached to

relation of the arms set out in the collection, by holding the applicant in his possession.

2-The unmanifested weapons in the possession of the applicant are, without another formality,

manifested free of charge in the name of the same.

3-The weapons manifested in the name of a different person, deceased or whereabouts

unknown are manifested free of charge on behalf of the applicant, making this a

proof, by any means, of its acquisition.

Article 40º

Delegation of competences

The competences assigned in this Act to the National Director of PSP may be

delegated, in the terms of the law.

Article 41º

Fees due

1-A submission of applications, the granting of licences, and their renewals, of

permits, the realization of surveys and examinations, the manifestos and all the subject acts

the order, provided for in this diploma, are dependent on payment by the

interested in the rate fixed by the competent porterie concerning the general scheme of use and

weapon size.

2-The acts aimed at the recognition of sports federations and the accreditation of the

collectors ' associations shall be exempt from the payment of any fees.

Article 42º

Start of effective

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This Law shall come into force on the day following that of its publication.