ACE COMBAT MEMBERSHIP In order to become a member of ACE COMBAT Airsoft you must be aged 18 or above and have attended at least three of our events in the past 12 months. All the events you have attended must not fall within the same two month period. Being a member of ACE COMBAT enables the member to purchase Realistic Imitation Firearms (RIF). On the 1st of October 2007 the Violent Crime Reduction Act made it illegal to sell, import or manufacture a RIF in the UK. It is still perfectly legal to buy and own RIFs - it is the seller who commits the offence. It is still possible for registered airsoft skirmishers aged 18 and over to be sold RIFs (which all the weapons we use would be classed as) but the seller must to be able to demonstrate that they have exercised due diligence in checking that the purchaser is a registered skirmisher. The UK Airsoft Retailers' Association (UKARA) have developed a scheme whereby appropriately vetted game sites are able to verify that individuals qualify to be placed on an independently-hosted database of registered airsoft skirmishers. Retailers are able to make checks against this database in order to verify the status of a customer before selling to them. ACE COMBAT is a UKARA Registered Game Site as of 12 November 2007. You will need to provide us with the following in order to obtain membership: A passport photo An item of photo ID (eg passport or driving licence) An item of ID showing your name and address (eg a utility bill ) A photocopy of both pieces of ID £10 to cover admin and the cost of issuing your membership card. Membership cards will bear a photo and your UKARA-compatible ACE COMBAT membership number (in the form ACA0000) Your UKARA Player registration form. Download this from the UKARA website, once you have your AC membership we can stamp and endorse your form which you then return to a UKARA-registered retailer then next time you are placing an order.
Membership will stay valid on a rolling basis as long as you continue to attend ACE COMBAT events regularly. If at any point you fall below three events attended in a twelve month period (which once again cannot all fall within two months) your membership will be revoked. Should your membership be revoked for this or any other reason we are obliged to advise UKARA to remove you from their database as you would no longer be a registered airsoft skirmisher. If you have any questions regarding the ACE COMBAT Airsoft membership scheme please contact us ACE COMBAT will not use any personal information provided to it for the purpose of membership application for any other purpose. No personal data will be passed to any other organisation. Members are responsible for informing us of any changes in their personal details in order to enable us to keep records current. UKARA Player Registration Forms are returned to UKARA by the player via a qualifying retailer, ACE COMBAT cannot make entries into the UKARA database and has no control over the database. |
