Western Australian Consolidated Acts

FIREARMS ACT 1973 - SECT 7

7 .         Governor may order delivery of firearms by dealers and manufacturers in cases of emergency

        (1)         Where the Governor is of opinion that any emergency has arisen, or is likely to arise, he may by proclamation declare that all dealers and manufacturers and repairers of firearms in the State, or in any specified portion of the State, having firearms or ammunition in their possession —

            (a)         shall render the same innocuous by a method to be specified in the declaration;

            (b)         shall deliver the same, or any parts or kinds of the same specified in the declaration, within a time and at a place so specified, to the Commissioner or any specified member of the Police Force, for the purpose of safe keeping.

        (2)         A person who fails to comply with the requirements of a proclamation made under subsection (1) commits a crime and is liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for 5 years.

        Summary conviction penalty: Imprisonment for 18 months or a fine of $6 000.

        [Section 7 amended by No. 70 of 1987 s. 5; No. 59 of 1996 s. 46; No. 4 of 2004 s. 58.]