WEAPONS ACT 1990 - SECT 30 Suspension or revocation notice

WEAPONS ACT 1990 - SECT 30

30 Suspension or revocation notice

(1) A suspension or revocation notice must—

(a) be in the approved form; and

(b) state the specific reasons for the suspension or revocation of the licence; and

(c) direct the licensee to surrender—

(i) the licence and any relevant permit to acquire to a stated police officer at a stated reasonable time and place; and

(ii) the weapon held by the licensee under the licence in a way prescribed under subsection (4) or (5) at, or by, a stated reasonable time.

(1A) If a reason an authorised officer suspends or revokes a licence is criminal intelligence or other information that is not publicly available, it is enough that the notice states the specific reason as ‘confidential information’.

(2) A suspension or revocation notice may have effect immediately only if it, or a copy of it, is given personally to the licensee or a person endorsed on the licence as representing the licensee.

(3) A person who is given a suspension or revocation notice must comply with the directions in the notice.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment.

(4) A weapon to be surrendered under a suspension or revocation notice may be surrendered by delivering it to any police officer.

(5) A weapon may also be surrendered by—

(a) delivering it to a licensed dealer or other person authorised under this Act to possess the weapon; and

(b) obtaining from the person to whom the weapon is delivered a receipt in the approved form for the weapon; and

(c) giving the receipt, within the time stated in the notice for the surrender of the weapon, to the police officer mentioned in subsection (1) (c) (i) .

(6) An authorised officer may extend the time for compliance with a suspension or revocation notice (the
"compliance time" ) if the person to whom the notice is given applies to the authorised officer for an extension before the end of the compliance time.