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Security Industry Act 1997
39AMaster licensee to submit any firearms for ballistics tests
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#### 39A Master licensee to submit any firearms for ballistics tests
39A Master licensee to submit any firearms for ballistics tests
> > (1) If a master licensee is authorised under the [Firearms Act 1996](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1996-046) to possess any firearms by reason of holding the master licence, the master licensee must, on request by the Commissioner, submit all the master licensee’s firearms to a police officer for ballistics testing.
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> > Maximum penalty—
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> > > (a) for a corporation—500 penalty units, or
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> > > (b) for an individual—250 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months, or both.
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> > (2) If, after a master licensee’s firearms have been tested in accordance with subsection (1), a firearm so tested has been modified in a manner that would change the characteristics of the firearm’s firing (such as any alteration, modification or change to the barrel, chamber, firing pin, extractor, ejector or bolt action of a firearm that may affect the forensic identifying features of that firearm), the master licensee must notify the Commissioner of that modification and on request by the Commissioner submit the firearm to a police officer for further ballistics testing.
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> > Maximum penalty—
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> > > (a) for a corporation—500 penalty units, or
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> > > (b) for an individual—250 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months, or both.
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> > (3) The Commissioner may keep the records of the results of any ballistics tests undertaken in accordance with this section and may use those records for any purpose as the Commissioner sees fit.
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> **s 39A:** Ins 2002 No 107, Sch 1 \[10\]. Am 2005 No 63, Sch 1 \[69\]; 2022 No 52, Sch 1\[44\].