Singapore legislation
Regulation 10
of Guns, Explosives and Weapons Control (Guns) Regulations 2025
Regulation 10
What is needed in application: general
Subregulation 1
For the purposes of section 50(2)(b) and (d) of the Act, every application for a gun licence must be accompanied by the following:
the appropriate application fee specified in the Third Schedule;
the identity particulars, telephone number, email address and contact address of the applicant;
where the application for a gun trader’s licence is made by an agent on behalf of the applicant — the identity particulars, telephone number, email address and contact address of the agent;
the address of every premises used or to be used to carry out the regulated activity which is the subject of the application;
the full name and contact address of at least one person in Singapore who is authorised by the applicant to accept, on the applicant’s behalf, service of notices and other documents under the Act with respect to that regulated activity which is the subject of the application;
the following details of every individual who is proposed to be charged by the applicant to supervise the regulated activity which is the subject of the application:
his or her identity particulars and contact address;
his or her position in the operations of the applicant with respect to that regulated activity;
his or her security clearance if the individual is a special worker or responsible executive;
a safety management plan and a security plan established by the applicant in relation to the carrying out of the regulated activity which is the subject of the application, unless the applicant is an individual carrying on that regulated activity without any employee;
the description (including type) of every gun, gun part and gun accessory that the regulated activity which is the subject of the application will involve;
if the applicant is a gun association —
the number of its members and active members;
the constitution of the gun association;
the minutes or records of its meetings and activities in the 12 months before the date of the application; and
any affiliation, during the 12 months before the date of the application, with any other gun association in Singapore or outside;
the special information required under regulation 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 or 19 (as the case may be) for the gun licence applied for, if not waived under regulation 11;
documents and other evidence of the information mentioned in sub‑paragraphs (a) to (j);
any other information that the Licensing Officer specifies that he or she requires to decide the application, and documents and other evidence of that other information.
Subregulation 2
A Licensing Officer may require an applicant to amend and re‑submit a safety management plan or a security plan required by paragraph (1)(g), for the purpose of assessing the application by the applicant.
Subregulation 3
In this regulation —
Definition
“gun association” means a society —
which is registered or deemed registered under the Societies Act 1966; and
whose object or activity, or one of whose objects or activities, is promoting any shooting activity by its members;
Definition
“shooting activity” means —
to use a paintball marker to discharge paintballs at things or people;
to use a low-powered airgun to shoot only non‑metallic projectiles at things or people; or
to use a gun to shoot at things (but not people) in any of the following circumstances:
a competitive shooting match, shooting training or target practice shooting at a fixed or moving target;
firearms or airguns safety training.