Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies to a person whose licence is suspended under section 27A or revoked under section 28A, because a court makes a domestic violence order naming the person as the respondent.
(2) If the respondent is present in court when the court makes the domestic violence order and the respondent has a weapons licence or a weapon, the following applies to the respondent--
(a) the respondent must--
(i) for a respondent who brought the licence to court--immediately give the licence to a police officer; or
(ii) for a respondent who did not bring the licence to court--immediately arrange with a police officer to give the licence to a police officer no later than 1 day after the day the court makes its order;
(b) the respondent must immediately arrange with a police officer to give to a police officer any weapon the respondent possesses, or to otherwise surrender the weapon, as soon as practicable, but no later than 1 day after the day the court makes its order.
Maximum penalty--10 penalty units.
(3) Subject to subsection (4), if a respondent is not present in court when the court makes the domestic violence order, as soon as practicable after the respondent is given a copy of the order, but no later than 1 day after the day the respondent is given the copy, the respondent must--
(a) give any weapons licence of the respondent to a police officer; and
(b) give any weapon the respondent possesses to a police officer or otherwise surrender the weapon.
Maximum penalty--10 penalty units.
(4) If a police officer personally serves the order on the respondent at the respondent's place of residence, the respondent must immediately give the weapons licence and any weapon in the respondent's possession to the police officer unless the respondent has a reasonable excuse for not doing so.
Maximum penalty--10 penalty units.
(5) Also, a respondent must immediately give the weapons licence or any weapon in the respondent's possession to a police officer (the surrender officer) if--
(a) a police officer made arrangements under subsection (2) with the respondent about the weapons licence or any weapon in the respondent's possession; and
(b) the surrender officer believes the respondent has not complied with the arrangements; and
(c) the surrender officer asks the respondent to give the officer the weapons licence or any weapon in the respondent's possession.
Maximum penalty--10 penalty units.
(6) If a weapon is given to a police officer under this section and, within 3 months of the weapon being given to the police officer, the respondent wants to otherwise surrender it, the respondent may make arrangements with a police officer for a licensed dealer or licensed armourer, in company with the respondent, to collect the weapon.
(7) The Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000 also provides for the role of police officers, and for offences by respondents, after a domestic violence order is made.
(8) In this section--
approved receipt means a receipt in a form that is an approved form under section 71(3).
otherwise surrender, for a weapon, means the respondent deals with the weapon in the following way--
(a) the respondent consigns the weapon to a licensed dealer or licensed armourer--
(i) for sale; or
(ii) for storage for a period that does not end before the period of the domestic violence order;
(b) the respondent obtains a copy of the approved receipt for the weapon's consignment from the licensed dealer or licensed armourer and, if the weapon is consigned for storage, the receipt states the respondent acknowledges the cost of the storage is the responsibility of the respondent;
(c) the respondent gives the copy of the receipt to a police officer--
(i) immediately; or
(ii) within the time allowed under this section for giving the weapon to a police officer.