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Arms Bill

General requirements - Requirements for possession of standard firearms, airguns, pistols, restricted weapons, standard magazines, non-restricted parts, ammunition, etc - Requirements for possession of pistol carbine conversion kits

24: Requirements for possession of pistol carbine conversion kit

You could also call this:

"Rules for having a pistol carbine conversion kit"

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You can only have a pistol carbine conversion kit if you have a firearms licence with a special note on it. This note must say you can have a pistol and the conversion kit. You get this note with a permit to import or possess the pistol or kit. If you are a business, you can only have a pistol carbine conversion kit if your senior manager has a business licence with the same special note. The business must have got the kit from someone else after the senior manager got the permit. There are other rules in the Act that might change these rules. If you break these rules without a good reason, you can be put in prison for up to 5 years.

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Part 2General requirements
Requirements for possession of standard firearms, airguns, pistols, restricted weapons, standard magazines, non-restricted parts, ammunition, etc: Requirements for possession of pistol carbine conversion kits

24Requirements for possession of pistol carbine conversion kit

  1. An individual may only possess a pistol carbine conversion kit if—

  2. the individual holds a firearms licence or visitor licence that bears an endorsement permitting them to possess a pistol; and
    1. the endorsement has been made specific to the pistol and pistol carbine conversion kit by the issue of—
      1. a permit to import a pistol or a permit to possess a pistol; or
        1. a permit to import the pistol carbine conversion kit or a permit to possess the pistol carbine conversion kit.

        2. A licensed business that is a body corporate may only possess a pistol carbine conversion kit if—

        3. the business licence held by a senior manager of the body corporate bears an endorsement permitting the possession of a pistol; and
          1. the licensed business took possession of the pistol carbine conversion kit from any other person following the endorsement being made specific to the pistol carbine conversion kit by the senior manager being issued with—
            1. a permit to import the pistol carbine conversion kit; or
              1. a permit to possess the pistol carbine conversion kit.

              2. Subsections (1) and (2) are subject to any other provision of this Act that provides otherwise.

              3. A person commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years if the person, without reasonable excuse, contravenes this section.