FIREARMS ACT 1996 - SECT 127A Offence to use firearms held under a firearms collectors licence
FIREARMS ACT 1996 - SECT 127A
Offence to use firearms held under a firearms collectors licence(1) A person must not use a firearm held under a firearms collectors licence unless that person is the holder of a permit issued under section 58.
Penalty: 240 penalty units or 4 years imprisonment.
S. 127A(2) amended by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 63.5).
(2) If a police officer reasonably believes that a firearm held under a collectors licence has been discharged, while that firearm was being held under the collectors licence, that police officer may, in accordance with a warrant issued under the Magistrates' Court Act 1989 , take possession of that firearm and may cause tests to be carried out on the firearm to determine whether or not it has been fired.