Arms Act 1983

Licensed dealers - Licensed dealers

11: Employees of licensed dealer to hold firearms licence bearing appropriate endorsements

You could also call this:

"Staff of gun shops must have a special gun licence for their job."

Illustration for Arms Act 1983

You work for a licensed dealer who sells firearms. You must have a firearms licence to help with their work. If your job involves certain types of firearms, like pistols, your licence must have special endorsements from section 30 or 30B. You can get in trouble and fined up to $10,000 if you do not follow this rule without a good reason.

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Part 2Licensed dealers
Licensed dealers

11Employees of licensed dealer to hold firearms licence bearing appropriate endorsements

  1. An employee of a licensed dealer must not assist with carrying on any dealer activity unless the employee holds a firearms licence.

  2. If the employee’s duties include the carrying on of a dealer activity in respect of pistols, pistol carbine conversion kits, restricted weapons, prohibited firearms, or prohibited magazines, the employee’s firearms licence must also bear appropriate endorsements made under section 30 or 30B that authorise the employee to possess any such items in connection with their duties as an employee of the licensed dealer.

  3. A person commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 if the person, without reasonable excuse, contravenes this section.

Notes
  • Section 11: replaced, on , by section 20 of the Arms Legislation Act 2020 (2020 No 23).