Section 28: Dealers and gunsmiths to keep registers

28. Dealers and gunsmiths to keep registers (1) (a) Every registered dealer in firearms or gunsmith shall keep a register of his transactions in firearms and ammunition in the prescribed form. (b) Such registers shall be supplied by the Commissioner on payment of a prescribed fee. (2) Every entry shall be made forthwith after the transaction to which it relates. (3) (a) Every dealer in firearms or gunsmith shall, on demand, allow any police officer not below the rank of Inspector of Police, duly authorised in writing in that behalf by the Commissioner, to enter and inspect all stock in hand, and shall on request by such police officer produce for inspection the register referred to in subsection (1). (b) The authority referred to in paragraph (a) shall be produced on demand. (4) Where a dealer in firearms sells ammunition to a firearm licensee, he shall record, on the verso of the firearm licence held by the purchaser, the amount and type of ammunition sold and shall initial such entry. (5) Every dealer in firearms or gunsmith shall, on or before the fifth day of each month, submit to the Commissioner a return in such form as may be prescribed showing the stock of firearms and ammunition held by him at the end of the preceding month. (6) Every dealer in firearms or gunsmith who fails to comply with this section, or knowingly makes any false entry in the register required to be kept under subsection (1), shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 50,000 rupees and to imprisonment not exceeding 6 months.