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Arms Bill

Preliminary provisions - Purposes and principles

3: Purposes of this Act

You could also call this:

"What this law is trying to achieve"

Illustration for Arms Bill

This proposed law has two main goals. You will see it aims to help people possess and use arms safely. It also wants to stop arms being used for criminal activities.

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View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=LMS1533360.

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"Key Ideas for Dealing with Arms Safely"

Part 1Preliminary provisions
Purposes and principles

3Purposes of this Act

  1. The purposes of this Act are to—

  2. promote the safe possession and use of arms; and
    1. impose controls to prevent the possession and use of arms for criminal activity.