New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

FIREARMS REGULATION 2006 - REG 109

109 Exemption relating to officers and employees of certain government agencies

(cf 1997 cl 108)

(1) An inspector appointed under Part 4 of the Explosives Act 2003 who possesses or uses a prohibited firearm referred to in item 15 of Schedule 1 to the Act is not, while acting in the ordinary course of the inspector’s duties, required to hold a licence or permit authorising possession or use of the firearm.

(2) An officer of the Department of Environment and Conservation or the Department of Primary Industries who possesses or uses a shotgun, or a prohibited firearm referred to in item 15 of Schedule 1 to the Act, that:

(a) is capable of propelling a bird net or other type of net, or

(b) is capable of discharging incendiary shells used for the purposes of authorised back-burning and bushfire hazard reduction programs,

is not, while acting in the ordinary course of the officer’s duties, required to hold a licence or permit authorising possession or use of the firearm.