Dragon Valley Membership Scheme
On the 1st of October 2007 the Violent Crime Reduction Act made it illegal to sell, import or manufacture a realistic imitation firearm (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. Dragon Valley is a UKARA Registered Game Site as of 11th October 2007.
In order to become a member of Dragon Valley 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. For example, Joe played on 25th May 07, 26th Aug 07 and 7th Oct 07 and therefore qualifies to become a member, whereas Bill played on 12th Aug 07, 26th Aug 07 and 9th Sep 07 and therefore does not yet qualify as all his events fall within a two month period. If Bill comes along on the 21st Oct 07 he will then qualify.
Once you have completed three events over not less than two months 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 or medical card)
- A photocopy of both pieces of ID - we need to see the originals so that we can vouch for the validity of the copies.
- £10 to cover admin and the cost of issuing your membership card. Membership cards will bear a photo and your UKARA-compatible Dragon Valley membership number (in the form DVAnnnnn)
- Your UKARA Player Registration Form. Download this from the UKARA website, once you have your DV 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 Dragon Valley 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.
In addition to the obvious benefits of being able to register on the UKARA database Dragon Valley membership will also offer other benefits such as a streamlined booking process with less details to enter when booking for an event and early-bird booking for popular events like the Xmas Special.
If you have any questions regarding the Dragon Valley Airsoft membership scheme please contact us.
Dragon Valley Ltd 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, Dragon Valley Ltd cannot make entries into the UKARA database and has no control over said database.