New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WEAPONS PROHIBITION ACT 1998 - SECT 23

23 Restrictions on purchase of prohibited weapons

(1) A person must not buy a prohibited weapon unless the person is authorised to possess the weapon by a permit.

Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 5 years.

(2) A person ( "the buyer") must not buy a prohibited weapon from another person ( "the seller") unless:

(a) the seller is authorised to possess the weapon by a permit, and

(b) the buyer:

(i) has seen the seller’s permit, or

(ii) knows that the seller is an authorised weapons dealer or authorised theatrical weapons armourer.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months, or both.