31Firearms declarations by registrar

31 Firearms declarations by registrar (1) The registrar may, in accordance with any guidelines under section 37 (Minister’s guidelines), do any of the following: (a) declare something to be a firearm or imitation firearm; (b) declare an unregulated firearm to be a prohibited firearm; (c) declare that something is not a firearm, imitation firearm or prohibited firearm. (2) A declaration remains in force for 3 months. (3) A declaration is a disallowable instrument. (4) The registrar must give additional public notice of the declaration. Note Public notice means notice on an ACT government website or in a daily newspaper circulating in the ACT (see Legislation Act, dict, pt 1). The requirement in s (4) is in addition to the requirement for notification on the legislation register as a notifiable instrument.