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Arms Act 1983

Firearms licences, endorsements, and permits to possess - Endorsements

33: Revocation of endorsements

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"What happens if your firearms licence endorsement is cancelled"

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You can lose an endorsement on your firearms licence. A Police officer can revoke the endorsement if you would not be allowed to have it now or if you broke the conditions. You must then give your licence to the Police so they can cancel the endorsement. If you have a pistol, the Police cannot revoke the endorsement if you owned it before 16 May 1969 and it meets certain conditions. You must have been registered as the owner before that date and the pistol must not be too small or designed to be held with one hand. The pistol also must not have been made smaller since 15 May 1969. If your endorsement is revoked, you cannot have a pistol or restricted weapon, even if you do not give your licence to the Police. These rules are extra to the rules in sections 27 and 28.

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Part 5Firearms licences, endorsements, and permits to possess
Endorsements

33Revocation of endorsements

  1. If, in the opinion of a commissioned officer of Police, any person whose licence bears an endorsement made under section 30,—

  2. would not, on an application made under section 29, be entitled to have that endorsement made on his firearms licence; or
    1. has failed to observe any conditions of the endorsement,—
        1. that commissioned officer may, by notice in writing under his hand, revoke that endorsement, and that person shall, upon demand, surrender his firearms licence to a member of the Police for cancellation of the endorsement.

      1. An endorsement in respect of a pistol shall not be revoked under subsection (1) if—

      2. the holder of the firearms licence has owned that pistol since before 16 May 1969 and, immediately before that date, was registered under section 9 of the Arms Act 1958 as the owner of that pistol; and
        1. the pistol, although less than 762 millimetres in length, has not been reduced below that length since 15 May 1969 and is not designed or adapted to be held and fired with 1 hand.

          1. On the revocation of an endorsement pursuant to this section the holder of the firearms licence shall cease to be entitled to have possession of a pistol or a restricted weapon, as the case may require, whether or not the firearms licence is surrendered pursuant to subsection (1).

          2. The provisions of this section are in addition to the provisions of sections 27 and 28.