Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

WEAPONS ACT 1991 - SECT 10

Acting Registrar

11. (1) The chief police officer may appoint a person who is a police officer who holds a rank of or above that of Superintendent to act as Registrar—

        (a)     during a vacancy in the office of Registrar, whether or not an appointment has previously been made to the office; or

        (b)     during any period, or during all periods, when the Registrar is absent from duty or from the Territory or is, for any other reason, unable to perform the functions of the office;

but a person appointed to act during a vacancy shall not continue so to act for more than 12 months.

(2) Anything done by or in relation to a person purporting to act under subsection (1) is not invalid because—

        (a)     the occasion for the appointment had not arisen;

        (b)     there was a defect or irregularity in connection with the appointment;

        (c)     the appointment had ceased to have effect; or

        (d)     the occasion for the person to act had not arisen or had ceased.

Register of Weapons

12. (1) The Registrar shall keep for the purposes of this Act a register to be known as the Register of Weapons.

(2) The Registrar shall enter in the Register—

        (a)     in relation to each licence—

              (i)     the name and address of the licensee;

              (ii)     the licence number; and

              (iii)     particulars of the grant, renewal, suspension, cancellation or surrender of the licence;

        (b)     in the case of a dangerous weapons licence, particulars of—

              (i)     each weapon registered or endorsed on the licence and the date of registration or endorsement;

              (ii)     the date on which any dangerous weapon registered on the licence was acquired or disposed of;

              (iii)     the name and address of the person from whom each dangerous weapon registered on the licence was acquired; and

              (iv)     the name and address of the owner of each dangerous weapon endorsed on the licence;

        (c)     in the case of a restricted weapons licence—particulars sufficient to identify the weapon to which the licence relates; and

        (d)     such other particulars as are prescribed.

Reports and recommendations etc.

13. (1) The Registrar shall—

        (a)     if requested to do so by the chief police officer—prepare and furnish reports and recommendations to the Minister on matters referred to the Registrar by the chief police officer; and

        (b)     by notice in the Gazette , determine guidelines for the security of premises in or on which dangerous weapons or restricted weapons are kept and for the safe custody of those weapons.

(2) Section 6 of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989 applies to guidelines determined under subsection (1) as if paragraph 6 (1) (b) were omitted and the following paragraph substituted:

    “(b)     takes effect on the first day on which the guidelines are no longer liable to be disallowed under this section; and”.

(3) A determination under subsection (1) is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 10 of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989 .

(4) The Registrar shall cause a copy of a determination under paragraph (1) (b) to be published in a daily newspaper published and circulating in the Territory.

Guidelines—offence