New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ROYAL COMMISSION (POLICE SERVICE) ACT 1994 - SECT 37L

37L Firearms and other police equipment

(1) Commission investigators, and Commission surveillance officers, who are seconded police officers are exempt from the requirement made by the Firearms Act 1996 to be authorised by a licence or permit to possess or use semi-automatic pistols (or to possess ammunition for any such pistol), but only when acting in their capacity as officers of the Commission.

(2) For the purposes of section 6 of the Prohibited Weapons Act 1989 , Commission investigators and Commission surveillance officers are authorised to possess handcuffs and body armour vests, but only when acting in their capacity as officers of the Commission.