Western Australian Consolidated Acts

FIREARMS ACT 1973 - SECT 22C

22C .         Offences relating to the Extract of Licence, licences, permits etc.

        (1)         Any person who, without lawful authority —

            (a)         alters an Extract of Licence, licence, permit, approval or authorisation to which this Act applies;

            (b)         uses, or has in their possession, an Extract of Licence, licence, permit, approval or authorisation to which this Act applies which has, without lawful authority, been altered;

            (c)         being the holder of an Extract of Licence, licence, permit, approval or authorisation to which this Act applies, parts with possession of it in order that it may be used by any other person otherwise than as the agent of the holder;

            (d)         uses or attempts to use an Extract of Licence, licence, permit, approval or authorisation to which this Act applies, issued in the name of another, otherwise than as the agent of the holder, to procure possession of any firearm or ammunition or any service to which this Act relates;

            (e)         fraudulently obtains, or is in possession of, or uses an Extract of Licence, licence, permit, approval or authorisation to which this Act applies; or

            (f)         in relation to any application under this Act in respect of an Extract of Licence, licence, permit, approval or authorisation to which this Act applies, supplies particulars or answers knowing them to be incorrect or misleading,

                commits an offence.

        Penalty: $ 2 000.

        (2)         For the purposes of subsection (1)(a) and (b) any alteration, addition or erasure made by a member of the Police Force, or any other person exercising a function under this Act, is to be taken to have been made with lawful authority.

        [Section 22C inserted by No. 59 of 1996 s. 41.]