Singapore legislation
Regulation 15
of Guns, Explosives and Weapons Control (Shooting and Paintball Ranges) Regulations 2025
Regulation 15
Deciding on application for venue approval
Subregulation 1
A Licensing Officer may grant a venue approval of any place or premises as an approved shooting range or approved paintball range as follows, subject to any conditions that may be specified in that venue approval:
venue approval for use as an approved shooting range with a firearm shooting arena for shooting activities using firearms;
venue approval for use as an approved shooting range with an airgun shooting arena for shooting activities using airguns;
venue approval for use as an approved shooting range with both a firearm shooting arena and an airgun shooting arena;
venue approval for use as a paintball range for the recreational shooting of paintball markers;
venue approval for use as an approved shooting range without a firearm shooting arena, and as a paintball range.
Subregulation 2
However, the Licensing Officer may refuse to grant (on renewal or otherwise) a venue approval of any place or premises if —
the application for the venue approval is incomplete or not made in accordance with regulation 10, 11, 12 or 13;
the Licensing Officer reasonably believes that information given in the application for the venue approval or any supporting evidence in relation to the application is false or misleading;
the Licensing Officer has sought further information or supporting evidence in relation to the application for the venue approval and the information or evidence has not been given to the Licensing Officer;
the applicant, without reasonable excuse, refuses or fails to arrange to be carried out an inspection of the place or premises as required under regulation 14;
the Licensing Officer has evidence of the likely exercise of any power under section 66 of the Act in relation to the applicant;
the applicant is not a holder of a current range operator licence appropriate to the venue approval applied for; or
the site of the proposed shooting range or paintball range is unsuitable because of its proximity to an airport, a port, a railway station or other similar place, or to a densely populated area, where there is an overriding need to avoid any risk of an occurrence that endangers or threatens to endanger the safety of the public.