S.L. 480.2 Art. 98Storage, inspection and transportation of firearms.

(1) Without prejudice to more specific provisions, wherever these apply, all licence holders in accordance with these regulations, as well as persons in possession of a hunting licence issued in accordance with the Hunting Licences Regulations, shall allow periodic inspections by authorised police officers to ensure that firearms and ammunition subject to a licence are locked safely, separately and unloaded. Such officers shall also ensure that the other provisions of the Act and these regulations, as applicable shall be adhered to:

Provided that owners of firearms and essential components listed in Schedule I of the Act shall ensure frequent scrutiny of their firearms, and that the Police may carry out unannounced on-site inspections to ensure that such firearms, essential components, and their ammunition, are locked, safely, separately and unloaded. During such inspections Police officers shall also ensure that other provisions of the Act and, or these regulations, including the requirement to inter alia keep registers or inventories are adhered to.

(2) Holders of any Target Shooter licence and any other licence issued in terms of these regulations, as well as persons in possession of a hunting licence issued in accordance with the Hunting Licences Regulations, shall ensure that during transportation, they store their firearms and ammunition as separately as possible, and that their firearms are kept in a case or in a compartment. Firearms and ammunition shall only be transported to and from shooting ranges, firearm dealer premises, gunsmith premises, other premises as authorised by the Commissioner or locations where hunting is permissible.

(3) Irrespective of the type of licence held, in those cases where at least one hundred (100) firearms or fifty thousand (50,000) rounds of ammunition are transported simultaneously, such transport shall be conducted under Police escort. Police escort shall also be required where at least twenty (20) firearms or essential components listed in Schedule I of the Act are being transported. The owner of the items in question shall be required to pay for such escort.