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INFORMATION REGARDING REFEREES

  • 18-09-2009 7:12am
    #1
    iwsf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 270 ✭✭


    Copied and pasted the following from the guidelines.
    I was told or read somewhere (can't remember) that the referees cannot be related to you but after reading the guidelines nothing is mentioned about this.

    Anybody on the board knows for sure ?


    INFORMATION REGARDING REFEREES
    [FONT=Times New Roman,Times New Roman][FONT=Times New Roman,Times New Roman]The judgement as to whether a person is fit to be entrusted with firearms rests in law with the Garda Síochána or, on appeal, the Courts. It is the function of the referee to provide information and opinions that the Garda Síochána can take into account when making that judgement. It is important to ensure that the referee has an adequate knowledge of the applicant e.g. the referee has had regular contact, whether in a professional, business or social context, with an applicant for 5 years. Referees need not, of course, have any knowledge of firearms or shooting sports, but they should be able to comment on the applicant’s general character and background and an issuing person may consider that a referee should be over 18 years of age.
    It is open to the Garda Síochána to contact the referee to discuss information provided on the reference form or on any other matter relating to the application. If the Garda Síochána considers that a referee is unsatisfactory, the applicant may be invited to nominate an alternative person to act as a referee e.g. a person might satisfy the requirements to act as a referee but may be found not know the applicant well enough to provide an informed reference.
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Comments

  • #2
    rrpc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,244 ✭✭✭rrpc


    iwsf wrote: »
    Copied and pasted the following from the guidelines.

    I was told or read somewhere (can't remember) that the referees cannot be related to you but after reading the guidelines nothing is mentioned about this.
    Anybody on the board knows for sure ?

    There is nothing in the firearms acts that defines who a referee should be. The guidelines are the best indication of what the Gardai on the ground will accept, so as they're the people processing license applications, that's what I'd go with.

    Generally the advice is: one family member and one other friend/colleague/club member who knows you own firearm(s).


  • #3
    iwsf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 270 ✭✭iwsf


    great, thank you for the clarification


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