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Weapons Act 1990
sec.71Licensed dealers and armourers to keep register
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### sec.71 Licensed dealers and armourers to keep register
A licensed dealer or licensed armourer must keep at the premises stated on the licence a weapons register.
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment.
A licensed dealer or licensed armourer must, for each transaction involving a weapon, enter immediately in the weapons register the particulars prescribed by regulation.
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment.
A licensed dealer or licensed armourer must notify an authorised officer in the approved form of each transaction involving a weapon within 14 days after the transaction happens.
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment.
A licensed armourer must, for each modification of a firearm under section 70A , enter immediately in the weapons register the particulars prescribed by regulation.
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment.
A licensed armourer must notify an authorised officer in the approved form of each modification of a firearm under section 70A within 14 days after the modification happens.
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment.
A person must not remove a part of the weapons register, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment.
Subsection (6) does not prevent the correction of the weapons register in a way specified by regulation.
In this section—
remove includes make illegible or unintelligible, erase or disguise.
transaction means receipt, acquisition, sale or transfer.
weapons register means—
a book in the approved form, bound in a way satisfactory to an authorised officer; or
a computer register approved by the commissioner.
s 71 amd 1994 No. 13 s 3 sch
sub 1996 No. 41 s 17
amd 1998 No. 19 s 39 ; 2003 No. 5 s 16 ; 2003 No. 37 s 39 ; 2020 No. 7 s 80
(sec.71-ssec.1) A licensed dealer or licensed armourer must keep at the premises stated on the licence a weapons register. Maximum penalty—20 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment.
(sec.71-ssec.2) A licensed dealer or licensed armourer must, for each transaction involving a weapon, enter immediately in the weapons register the particulars prescribed by regulation. Maximum penalty—20 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment.
(sec.71-ssec.3) A licensed dealer or licensed armourer must notify an authorised officer in the approved form of each transaction involving a weapon within 14 days after the transaction happens. Maximum penalty—20 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment.
(sec.71-ssec.4) A licensed armourer must, for each modification of a firearm under section 70A , enter immediately in the weapons register the particulars prescribed by regulation. Maximum penalty—20 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment.
(sec.71-ssec.5) A licensed armourer must notify an authorised officer in the approved form of each modification of a firearm under section 70A within 14 days after the modification happens. Maximum penalty—20 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment.
(sec.71-ssec.6) A person must not remove a part of the weapons register, unless the person has a reasonable excuse. Maximum penalty—20 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment.
(sec.71-ssec.7) Subsection (6) does not prevent the correction of the weapons register in a way specified by regulation.
(sec.71-ssec.8) In this section— remove includes make illegible or unintelligible, erase or disguise. transaction means receipt, acquisition, sale or transfer. weapons register means— a book in the approved form, bound in a way satisfactory to an authorised officer; or a computer register approved by the commissioner.
- (a) a book in the approved form, bound in a way satisfactory to an authorised officer; or
- (b) a computer register approved by the commissioner.