FIREARMS ACT 1996 - SECT 116 Notice of removal from the State
FIREARMS ACT 1996 - SECT 116
Notice of removal from the State(1) A person who removes a firearm from the State for the purpose of no longer keeping it in the State must give notice of the removal of that firearm to the Chief Commissioner.
Penalty: 240 penalty units or 4 years imprisonment.
(2) A notice under subsection (1) must be—
(a) in the form approved by the Chief Commissioner; and
(b) given not less than 7 days before the firearm is removed from the State.
Penalty: 40 penalty units.
S. 116(3) inserted by No. 84/1997 s. 46.
(3) This section does not apply to a person who removes a firearm from the State for the purpose of no longer keeping it in the State where that firearm has been acquired in accordance with an inter-State permit to acquire and that firearm has been acquired in circumstances to which section 102(5) or (6) applies.
S. 117 amended by No. 50/2007 s. 30 (ILA s. 39B(1)).