Queensland Consolidated Acts

WEAPONS ACT 1990 - SECT 42

(1) An authorised officer must decide an application for a permit to acquire a weapon as soon as practicable after the end of any period that may be prescribed for this section under a regulation.

(2) In deciding the application, the authorised officer may consider anything at the officer's disposal.

(3) The authorised officer must consider the following things when deciding whether the applicant has a need to possess the weapon--

(a) whether the applicant's requirements can be adequately met in a way not involving the use of a weapon or by using a weapon of another category or type;

(b) whether the applicant possesses other weapons, and in particular other weapons of that category or type;

(c) another thing prescribed under a regulation.

(4) To remove any doubt, a collector may have a need for a particular weapon even though the collector already possesses a weapon of the same category or type.

(5) The authorised officer must--

(a) approve the application and issue the permit to acquire subject to any conditions the authorised officer may decide; or

(b) reject the application.