FIREARMS ACT 1996 - SECT 134 Certain offences as to firearms, firearm parts, silencers and prescribed items
FIREARMS ACT 1996 - SECT 134
Certain offences as to firearms, firearm parts, silencers and prescribed items(1) A person must not shorten the barrel of a longarm so as to reduce the length of the firearm to less than 75 centimetres measured parallel with the barrel or the length of the barrel to less than 50 centimetres.
Penalty: 240 penalty units or 4 years imprisonment.
(2) A person must not alter a firearm which has been rendered permanently inoperable so that the firearm can discharge any shot, bullet or missile.
Penalty: 240 penalty units or 4 years imprisonment.
S. 134(3) amended by No. 28/2003 s. 59.
(3) A person must not deface or alter any number or letter or other identifying symbol or mark on a firearm.
Penalty: 600 penalty units or 7 years imprisonment.
S. 134(4) inserted by No. 50/2007 s. 36(2).
(4) A person must not destroy, or render inoperable, a firearm, firearm part, silencer or prescribed item unless that person does so in a manner approved by the Chief Commissioner.
Penalty: 240 penalty units or 4 years imprisonment.
S. 134A inserted by No. 28/2003 s. 60, amended by No. 50/2007 s. 37 (ILA s. 39B(1)).