Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) An authorised officer may, by a revocation notice given to a licensee, revoke the licensee's licence if the authorised officer is satisfied of any of the following things--
(a) the licence has been obtained through fraud or deception;
(b) the licensee has been convicted of an offence against any law in force in Queensland or elsewhere involving the use, carriage, discharge or possession of a weapon;
(c) the licensee has contravened a condition, participation condition or special condition of the licence;
(d) the licensee is no longer a fit and proper person to hold a licence;
(e) the licensee no longer has a reason mentioned in section 11 to possess a weapon;
(f) for an armourer's licence, dealer's licence or theatrical ordnance supplier's licence--
(i) the licensed armourer, licensed dealer or licensed theatrical ordnance supplier is not in charge of the premises stated in the licence; or
(ii) the premises stated in the licence are no longer satisfactory for carrying out the business;
(g) for a collector's licence--
(i) the licensed collector is no longer a genuine collector or is not in charge of the premises where the collector's weapons are usually kept; or
(ii) the premises where the collection is usually kept are no longer satisfactory for the safekeeping of weapons.
(2) Also, if a licensee reports or states to a police officer that a weapon or 1 or more weapons of which the licensee is the registered owner were lost or stolen, an authorised officer may, by a revocation notice given to the licensee, revoke the licensee's licence if--
(a) the licensee fails to satisfy the authorised officer that the licensee took reasonable precautions to prevent the loss or theft; or
(b) the authorised officer reasonably believes that the licensee has unlawfully disposed of the weapon.
(3) If the authorised officer is acting on the basis of criminal intelligence or other information of the kind mentioned in section 10B(1)(ca) or 10C(1), the authorised officer may revoke the licence because the person is not a fit and proper person only if the commissioner or deputy commissioner, acting personally, approves the licence be revoked on that basis.
(4) If a licensee whose licence is revoked under this section holds a permit to acquire, the permit is also revoked.
(5) This section does not prevent an authorised officer reinstating a licence that is revoked by the authorised officer because of a mistake of fact.
Examples for subsection (5)--
1 J was charged with an offence and although no conviction was recorded for the offence, police records indicated a conviction had been recorded.
2 A was required to be a member of a pistol club but the club failed to tell the commissioner that A had joined the club before the revocation happened.
(6) A licence reinstated under subsection (5) is taken not to have been revoked.
(7) The licence may be reinstated by--
(a) returning the licence; or
(b) issuing a fresh licence.
(8) The authorised officer must also ensure any entry made in the firearms register because of the revocation is corrected.