28BRequirements relating to safety and storage

28B Requirements relating to safety and storage

28B Requirements relating to safety and storage

(1) The holder of a licence or permit must not store a firearm in a dwelling unless it is an inhabited dwelling.

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units if it is established beyond reasonable doubt that the firearm concerned was a prohibited firearm or pistol, or 20 penalty units in any other case.

(2) The holder of a licence or permit must not store a firearm on premises other than a dwelling unless—

(a) the premises are in a proximity to an inhabited dwelling that allows the premises to be easily observed by the holder of the licence or permit, or by a person on behalf of the holder of the licence or permit, from the inhabited dwelling, or

(b) the holder is a licensed firearms dealer and the premises are commercial premises from which the holder carries on the business of, or at which the holder carries on activities as, a firearms dealer, or

(c) the requirements of subclause (3) are complied with.

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units if it is established beyond reasonable doubt that the firearm concerned was a prohibited firearm or pistol, or 20 penalty units in any other case.

(3) For the purposes of subclause (2)(c), the requirements are as follows—

(a) the firearm must be—

(i) stored in a safe of an approved type, and

(ii) fitted with a trigger or barrel lock that prevents the firearm from being discharged, and

(iii) secured individually on, or in, a locked device within the safe,

(b) the safe must be fitted with an alarm of an approved type that is monitored off-site,

(c) the premises on which the firearm is stored must have an intruder alarm and duress facilities that are monitored off-site and are of an approved type.

(4) In this clause—

inhabited dwelling, in relation to the storage of a firearm by the holder of a licence or permit, means—

(a) a dwelling that is the principal place of residence of a person, whether or not the person is the holder of the licence or permit, or

(b) a dwelling at which a person resides while the firearm is stored there, whether or not the person is the holder of the licence or permit.