New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WEAPONS PROHIBITION ACT 1998 - SECT 13

13 Form of permit

(1) A permit is to be in any one or more forms approved by the Commissioner. The manner and form in which the information referred to in subsection (2) is to be specified in, or recorded on, the permit is to be determined by the Commissioner (including, for example, by way of magnetic strip or other electronic means).

(2) A permit must:

(a) if the Commissioner so determines in the case of any particular kind of permit, contain a recent photograph of the holder (such photograph being obtained in accordance with arrangements determined by the Commissioner), and

(b) bear the signature of the holder, and

(c) specify the authority conferred by the permit and the kind of prohibited weapons to which it relates, and

(d) specify the genuine reason for which the holder was issued with the permit, and

(e) specify (in the case of a weapons dealer permit) the premises where the prohibited weapons to which the permit relates are authorised to be kept, and

(f) contain such other details as may be prescribed by the regulations.

(3) The holder of a permit must, immediately after being issued with the permit, write the person’s usual signature in ink in the space provided for it on the permit (unless the permit already bears the person’s signature).

Maximum penalty (subsection (3)): 20 penalty units.