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Arms Act 1983

Preliminary provisions

4: Power to declare weapons to be restricted weapons or specially dangerous airguns

You could also call this:

"The Governor-General can ban certain weapons or airguns for safety reasons."

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The Governor-General can declare a weapon to be restricted or an airgun to be specially dangerous. You need to know that this can be done at any time by an Order in Council. The Governor-General can specify a weapon by its name or describe a class of weapons. The Order in Council can relate to a specific weapon or a group of weapons. You can find out more about how these orders are published by looking at Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. This explains what secondary legislation is and how it works. The Governor-General's order is a type of secondary legislation, which has its own rules for publication. You can learn more about this by reading the relevant laws. These laws help you understand how the Governor-General's orders are made and published.

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Part 1Preliminary provisions

4Power to declare weapons to be restricted weapons or specially dangerous airguns

  1. For the purposes of this Act, the Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, declare—

  2. any weapon (including an airgun) to be a restricted weapon; or
    1. any airgun to be a specially dangerous airgun.

      1. Any Order in Council made under this section may relate to any weapon or airgun specified by its name or trade name, or to any class of weapons or airguns identified by a description of that class.

      2. An order under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

      Notes
      • Section 4(3): replaced, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).