Singapore legislation

Regulation 20

of Guns, Explosives and Weapons Control (Weapons and Noxious Substances) Regulations 2025

Regulation 20

Prescribed safekeeping requirements for weapons and noxious substances

For the purposes of section 36(1)(b)(i) of the Act, a holder of a weapon licence or noxious substance licence —

(a)

must take all reasonable steps necessary to keep or store every weapon or noxious substance that the holder is authorised to possess under the licence —

(i)

in a suitable stockroom in any premises occupied by the holder concerned; or

(ii)

in a suitable lockable container (not necessarily within a suitable stockroom),whenever the weapon or noxious substance is not being handled in connection with any regulated activity the holder is authorised by or under the Act to carry on; and

(b)

must, in respect of any premises occupied by the holder in connection with that regulated activity, apply the surveillance requirement to all the following watched zones:

(i)

every part of those premises within which is located —

(A)

a suitable stockroom for keeping or storing (on display or otherwise) any weapon or noxious substance the holder is authorised to possess under the licence; or

(B)

a suitable lockable container for keeping or storing (on display or otherwise) any weapon or noxious substance the holder is authorised to possess under the licence;

(ii)

every entrance to, and exit (including an emergency exit) from, the part of those premises mentioned in sub-paragraph (i);

(iii)

every suitable stockroom mentioned in sub-paragraph (i)(A); (iv)every entrance to, and exit (including an emergency exit) from, any suitable stockroom mentioned in sub-paragraph (i)(A).

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