WEAPONS ACT 1990 - SECT 10A
Adequate knowledge of weapon
WEAPONS ACT 1990 - SECT 10A
Adequate knowledge of weapon
10A Adequate knowledge of weapon
(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 that the person has completed, within 1 year before the day the
person applies for the issue of the new licence—
(a) if the new licence is a
security licence (guard)—
(i) an approved safety training course (security
guard); or
(ii) a course in safety training for weapons conducted in another
State that the commissioner is satisfied is at least equivalent to an approved
safety training course (security guard); or
(b) if the new licence is not a
security licence (guard)—
(i) an approved safety training course (general);
or
(ii) a course in safety training for weapons conducted in another State
that the commissioner is satisfied is at least equivalent to an approved
safety training course (general).
(3) The person complies with this
subsection if—
(a) within 1 year 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"previous licence" ) held by the person as a licensee was no longer in force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a reason for the previous licence being no longer in force that the licence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.
(4) The person complies with this
subsection if the person is the holder of a current licence, equivalent to the
new licence, issued under the law of another State or country.
