Hunting licence

If you want to hunt in Norway you must have a valid hunting licence. If you want to purchase a gun, this licence can also be used as documentation for the police that you have been registered as a hunter.

If you have never hunted before, you must first take the hunting test. You can obtain information regarding how and where to take this test by contacting the Fish and Game Commission (Viltnemda) in your home municipality. If you pass the hunting test, you will be registered as a hunter in the Norwegian Register of Hunters. Two to five days after registration you will receive a hunting licence payment slip in the mail. The giro you receive contains an identification number that enables you to electronically register payment. Your permit must hold a valid cash register stamp of payment of the annual fee before you may hunt.

An important change of procedures after the Norwegian Register of Hunters was moved to the Brønnøysund Register Centre is that all licence payment slips will now be sent by the Register of Hunters. You will still receive information about hunting from the Directorate for Nature Management. Hunting licence payment slips are issued each year during the last half of March.

Hunters who have not received the hunting licence payment slip or who have misplaced it may order a new one.