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Weapons Act 1990
sec.97Club must keep range use register books
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### sec.97 Club must keep range use register books
It is a condition of an approved shooting club’s shooting club permit that the club must keep a range use register and ensure the register is available at all times when the range is being conducted by the shooting club.
Before a person uses a range conducted by an approved shooting club to discharge a weapon, the person must—
if the person is a licensee, produce the person’s licence to a range officer at the range; and
enter in the range use register the details provided for under subsection (3) .
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
If the person proposing to use the range is not a licensee, the person must produce the identification and complete the approved form required under section 53 .
The register must include provision for the following details—
the person’s identity;
the category of weapon the person will use on the range;
other details prescribed under a regulation.
It is a condition of an approved shooting club’s shooting club permit that the club ensure that a range officer of the club must inspect the entry made by the person in the register and endorse the entry as correct before allowing the person to use the range.
An endorsement under this section must clearly identify the person making the endorsement.
Subsections (2) (a) and (4) do not apply in relation to a range officer of the approved range using the range to discharge a weapon.
s 97 ins 1994 No. 13 s 12
amd 1997 No. 48 s 3 sch 2
sub 2003 No. 37 s 51
(sec.97-ssec.1) It is a condition of an approved shooting club’s shooting club permit that the club must keep a range use register and ensure the register is available at all times when the range is being conducted by the shooting club.
(sec.97-ssec.2) Before a person uses a range conducted by an approved shooting club to discharge a weapon, the person must— if the person is a licensee, produce the person’s licence to a range officer at the range; and enter in the range use register the details provided for under subsection (3) . Maximum penalty—20 penalty units. If the person proposing to use the range is not a licensee, the person must produce the identification and complete the approved form required under section 53 .
(sec.97-ssec.3) The register must include provision for the following details— the person’s identity; the category of weapon the person will use on the range; other details prescribed under a regulation.
(sec.97-ssec.4) It is a condition of an approved shooting club’s shooting club permit that the club ensure that a range officer of the club must inspect the entry made by the person in the register and endorse the entry as correct before allowing the person to use the range.
(sec.97-ssec.5) An endorsement under this section must clearly identify the person making the endorsement.
(sec.97-ssec.6) Subsections (2) (a) and (4) do not apply in relation to a range officer of the approved range using the range to discharge a weapon.
- (a) if the person is a licensee, produce the person’s licence to a range officer at the range; and
- (b) enter in the range use register the details provided for under subsection (3) .
- (a) the person’s identity;
- (b) the category of weapon the person will use on the range;
- (c) other details prescribed under a regulation.