VCR Act and Airsoft The VCR Act and Airsoft

Document Generated: 2011-02-04 Status: This is the original version (as it was originally made). UK Statutory Instruments are not carried in their revised form on this site. conduct was for the purpose only of making the imitation firearm in question available for one or more of the purposes specified in paragraph (2). (2) Those purposes are— (a) the organisation and holding of permitted activities for which public liability insurance is held in relation to liabilities to third parties arising from or in connection with the organisation and holding of those activities; (b) the purposes of display at a permitted event. 4. For the purposes of regulation 3 a person shall be taken to have shown a matter specified in that regulation if— (a) sufficient evidence of that matter is adduced to raise an issue with respect to it; and (b) the contrary is not proved beyond a reasonable doubt. 5.—(1) The persons described for the purposes of section 37(2)(e) of the 2006 Act and paragraph 5(2)(e) of Schedule 2 to that Act are those mentioned in paragraph (2). (2) The persons mentioned in this paragraph are— (a) a person or persons holding public liability insurance in relation to liabilities to third parties arising from or in connection with the organisation and holding of historical re-enactments; (b) two or more persons, at least one of whom holds such public liability insurance. Sizes and colours which are to be regarded as unrealistic for a real firearm 6.—(1) For the purposes of section 38(3)(b) of the 2006 Act and paragraph 6(3)(b) of Schedule 2 to that Act, the size of an imitation firearm is to be regarded as unrealistic for a real firearm only if the imitation firearm has dimensions that are less than the dimensions specified in paragraph (2). (2) The dimensions specified in this paragraph are a height of 38 millimetres and a length of 70 millimetres. 7.—(1) For the purposes of section 38(3)(b) of the 2006 Act and paragraph 6(3)(b) of Schedule 2 to that Act, a colour is to be regarded as unrealistic for a real firearm only if it is a colour specified in paragraph (2) or if the imitation firearm is made of transparent material. (2) The colours specified in this paragraph are— (a) bright red; (b) bright orange; (c) bright yellow; (d) bright green; (e) bright pink; (f) bright purple; and (g) bright blue. Tony McNulty Minister of State Home Office 6th September 2007 2

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