Can anyone tell me whether it is in HO guidance that landowners MUST have more than £2 million personal liability insurance if they allow someone to shoot on their land, as the shooter is acting as their 'agent' ?
I had always believed that if anyone shoots on your land, however large, with permission and as a holder of an open cert, they could use what calibre they chose with your input - the implication of my phone call was that this is not so and is confined to the approved police calibre for the land, obviously this is not so either.
This MAY be a pre-cursor to changes to the status of 'open' certs. Equally, when did the Police start to insist as a legal requirement that anyone on a restricted cert must have £10m TP Liability insurance ?
Security of storage MUST be updated at each renewal and anyway after 5 years, to check if changes have been made which may not be considered safe, room changes etc - no personal problem with this but again - this MUST happen.
Details of all people who live in the house MUST be given, despite it not being on the renewal forms yet (and without their consent) - watch this space . How this may affect my certificate after 40 years without any challenge is questionable but clearly a degree of 'stricture' is being observed.
Finally some details of my firearms were incorrect in minor, almost irrelevant detail - the details were copied from the original certificates but the 'implication' was that I had submitted incorrect information.
Interestingly, the theoretical officer did not give his number at the start of the questioning merely that he was dealing with an application - not good practice on phone interviews.
I wonder is any orgs are picking up this kind of detail from their members - perhaps they know because the Police also stressed the absolute need (not yet a formal requirement ?) for a shooter to have third party insurance up to £10M - what is e.g. BASC's limit of liability - £10m. I dont know of any 'best practice' guidance that specifies this exact amount - does anyone?
I had always believed that if anyone shoots on your land, however large, with permission and as a holder of an open cert, they could use what calibre they chose with your input - the implication of my phone call was that this is not so and is confined to the approved police calibre for the land, obviously this is not so either.
This MAY be a pre-cursor to changes to the status of 'open' certs. Equally, when did the Police start to insist as a legal requirement that anyone on a restricted cert must have £10m TP Liability insurance ?
Security of storage MUST be updated at each renewal and anyway after 5 years, to check if changes have been made which may not be considered safe, room changes etc - no personal problem with this but again - this MUST happen.
Details of all people who live in the house MUST be given, despite it not being on the renewal forms yet (and without their consent) - watch this space . How this may affect my certificate after 40 years without any challenge is questionable but clearly a degree of 'stricture' is being observed.
Finally some details of my firearms were incorrect in minor, almost irrelevant detail - the details were copied from the original certificates but the 'implication' was that I had submitted incorrect information.
Interestingly, the theoretical officer did not give his number at the start of the questioning merely that he was dealing with an application - not good practice on phone interviews.
I wonder is any orgs are picking up this kind of detail from their members - perhaps they know because the Police also stressed the absolute need (not yet a formal requirement ?) for a shooter to have third party insurance up to £10M - what is e.g. BASC's limit of liability - £10m. I dont know of any 'best practice' guidance that specifies this exact amount - does anyone?
