(1) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2015/2403 of 15 December 2015 establishing common guidelines on deactivation standards and techniques for ensuring that deactivated firearms are rendered irreversibly inoperable is amended as follows.

(2) In Article 1 (scope), in paragraph 2 -

(a) for "the date of its application" substitute "8 April 2016";

(b) for "to another Member State" substitute "outside of the United Kingdom".

(3) In Article 3 (verification and certification of deactivation of firearms) -

(a) in paragraph 1 for "Member States" substitute "The appropriate authority";

(b) in paragraph 2 for "Member States" substitute "the appropriate authority";

(c) omit paragraph 3;

(d) in paragraph 4 -

(i) for "a deactivation certificate in accordance with the template set out in Annex III" substitute "certification in writing in accordance with the relevant legislation";

(ii) omit the final sentence;

(e) in paragraph 6 for "Member States" substitute "The appropriate authority";

(f) after paragraph 6 insert -

"7. In this Article -