Queensland Consolidated Acts

WEAPONS ACT 1990 - SECT 10A

(1) For section 10(2)(b), a person has an adequate knowledge of safety practices for the use, storage and maintenance of a weapon, or category of weapon, the possession of which is to be authorised by a licence (the new licence) if the person complies with subsection (2), (3) or (4).

(2) The person complies with this subsection if the person satisfies the commissioner the person has satisfactorily completed, within the 12 month period immediately before the day the person applies for the issue of the new licence--

(a) if the new licence is a security licence (guard)--

(i) the training course approved by the commissioner for section 124; or

(ii) a course in safety training for weapons conducted in another State that the commissioner is satisfied is at least equivalent to a course approved by the commissioner for section 124; or

(b) otherwise--a course in safety training for weapons approved by the commissioner.

(3) The person complies with this subsection if the new licence is not a security licence (guard), and the commissioner is satisfied the person has an adequate knowledge of safety practices for the use, storage and maintenance of the weapon, or category of weapon, because--

(a) the person is authorised to possess and use a weapon of the weapon's category, or a weapon of the category of weapon, in another jurisdiction; or

(b) the person has, within the 12 month period immediately before the day the person applies for the issue of the new licence, satisfactorily completed a course in safety training for weapons at least equivalent to a course approved by the commissioner under subsection (2)(b).

(4) The person complies with this subsection if--

(a) within the 6 months immediately before the day the person made the application for the new licence, the person was a licensee; and

(b) the licence (the previous licence) held by the person as a licensee was no longer in force when the person made the application for the new licence; and

(c) it was not a reason for the previous licence being no longer in force that the licence had been suspended or revoked under this Act; and

(d) the previous licence was a licence of 1 of the following classes--

(i) collector's licence (heirloom) or (weapons);

(ii) concealable firearms licence;

(iii) firearms licence;

(iv) minor's licence.