New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

FIREARMS REGULATION 2006 - REG 6

6 Restriction on authority conferred by category H licence

(cf 1997 cl 5A)

(1) The genuine reason of business or employment does not, in relation to a category H licence or an application for such a licence, include business or employment that constitutes any other genuine reason.

Note: Section 16 of the Act provides that a category H licence must not be issued unless the genuine reason established by the applicant is sport/target shooting, business or employment or firearms collection. The genuine reasons specified in section 12 of the Act are each mutually exclusive.

(2) Accordingly, a category H licence issued to a person who has established business or employment as the genuine reason for being issued with the licence does not authorise the possession or use of a registered pistol for a purpose that is a genuine reason other than business or employment.

For example, the licensee is not authorised to use the pistol for the purposes of:

(a) hunting (including the control or suppression of vermin or pest animals) or fishing, or

(b) farming or grazing activities (including the destruction of diseased or injured animals).