Vol 16-12

NHSA NEWSLETTER

VOL. 16 (12) - 15-04-2020

 RENEWAL OF LICENCES: PROCESS EXPLAINED

Dear Member,

In general our members’ firearm licences are starting to have to be renewed.

If you have logged your firearms under My Firearms on your Natshoot Member Portal you will receive an automatic system generated Email, 150 days before the licence expires, warning you to ascertain that you renew the specific licence on time.  The message is repeated on 120 days before expiry of the licence again.

Remember that you have to submit your renewal application(s) 90 days before the expiry date of your white card licences.  DO NOT get caught out with licences which have expired please !  Please do not get yourself into a position where you are forced to hand in your firearm because you are in effect illegally in possession of it.

If you apply before 90 days of expiry date, your existing licence remains valid until SAPS renews your licence – no matter how long that might take (the renewed licence(s) will also be valid for the period the original licence was valid for, i.e. 5 years or 10 years).

Please ascertain that you make a copy of the receipt for the payment(s) you will have to make for renewal(s), and that you at all times carry this copy of the receipt with your expired licence as proof that you have applied for renewal on time.  Otherwise it can be taken that you are illegally in possession of a firearm as the licence has expired (that is especially true for instances where you might be stopped in a road block of some sorts and you are asked if you have firearms in your possession)

The following documents will have to accompany your renewal application(s):

LEASE DO NOT FIND YOURSELF AT FAULT WITH THIS BY LAW REQUIRED PROCESS

GO AND LOOK WHAT THE EXPIRY DATES OF ALL YOUR LICENCES ARE RIGHT NOW !!

SAPS APPLICATION FORMS TO RENEW FIREARM LICENCES

Download:  Application for Renewal of Firearm Licence (SAPS 518(a))

Download:  Annexure A (English) to Application for Renewal of Firearm licence

Laai Af:  Aansoek vir Hernuwing van Vuurwapenlisensie (SAPD 518(a))

Laai Af:  Aanhangsel A tot Aansoek vir Hernuwing van Vuurwapenlisensie

Laai Af  Verklaring van Besit van Korrekte Kluis

 

Kind regards

Natshoot Office