New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SECURITY INDUSTRY ACT 1997 - SECT 23B

23B Special conditions-storage of firearms in certain residential premises

(1) It is a condition of every class 1F or P1F licence that, if the licensee is an armed security guard, the licensee must not store a firearm at any prohibited premises.

(2) It is a condition of every master licence that, if the master licensee employs a person as an armed security guard, the master licensee must not cause or permit any firearm in the master licensee’s possession (including those firearms that have been acquired by the master licensee in connection with the master licensee’s business) to be stored at any prohibited premises.

(3) If a police officer discovers that a firearm is stored at prohibited premises, the police officer may seize the firearm.

(4) If an armed security guard stores a firearm at any prohibited premises, the Commissioner:

(a) must suspend, in accordance with section 25, the armed security guard’s class 1F or P1F licence, and

(b) must serve a notice on the master licensee who employs the armed security guard (or, if the security guard is self- employed and holds a master licence, serve a notice on the armed security guard as the holder of a master licence), personally or by post:

(i) stating that the armed security guard’s class 1F or P1F licence has been suspended and the reasons for suspending it, and

(ii) requesting that the master licensee provide the Commissioner with reasons why the master licence should not be revoked.

(5) In this section:
"prohibited premises" means any premises that are regularly used as a principal or temporary place of residence by a person who has been found guilty of a criminal offence, being an offence that would disqualify the person from holding a licence because of section 16 (1) (a) (if the person has been convicted) or section 16 (1) (b) (whether or not the person has been convicted).