80Activities that may be subject to cost recovery

1. The responsible Minister may recommend the making of a regulation under section 86 only if satisfied that the fee or charge concerned relates to an activity undertaken by the Police in accordance with this Act in relation to a person, shooting club, or shooting range.

2. The activities for which fees or charges may be imposed under section 86—

3. include—
   1. processing an application for a firearms or dealer’s licence, including assessing whether the applicant is a fit and proper person:
   2. providing training and testing services in relation to obtaining a firearms licence:
   3. issuing any licence under this Act:
   4. processing any application for an endorsement, a permit to possess, or permit to import:
   5. issuing any endorsement, a permit to possess, or permit to import:
   6. undertaking inspections and compliance checks, including checks relating to any licence, endorsement, permit, certification, conditions, or improvement notices:
   7. providing testing of samples in relation to firearms, firearm parts, restricted weapons, parts of restricted weapons, magazines, pistol carbine conversion kits, air pistol carbine conversion kits, blank-firing guns, or ammunition:
   8. processing any application for approval of a pistol shooting club or certification of a pistol shooting range:
   9. processing any application for enrolment of a non-pistol shooting club or non-pistol shooting range:
   10. approving the manufacture for sale of arms items:
4. do not include—
   1. the response of the Police to calls relating to potential offending; or
   2. the conduct of criminal investigations; or
   3. the prosecution of criminal offences.