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Arms Bill

General requirements - Requirements for possession of restricted firearms, restricted magazines, restricted parts, and restricted ammunition - Requirements for possession of restricted firearms

31: Requirements for possession of restricted firearm

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"Rules for having a restricted firearm in New Zealand"

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You can only have a restricted firearm if you have a firearms licence with a special note on it. This note must say you can have the specific restricted firearm. You might get this note if you have a permit to import or possess the firearm. If you are a business, you can only have a restricted firearm if your senior manager has a business licence with the same special note. The business must have taken possession of the firearm after the senior manager got the permit. There might be other rules in the Act that change these rules. If you break these rules without a good reason, you could go to prison for up to 7 years.

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Part 2General requirements
Requirements for possession of restricted firearms, restricted magazines, restricted parts, and restricted ammunition: Requirements for possession of restricted firearms

31Requirements for possession of restricted firearm

  1. An individual may only possess a restricted firearm if the individual—

  2. holds a firearms licence that bears an endorsement permitting them to possess a restricted firearm; and
    1. the endorsement has been made specific to the restricted firearm by the issue of—
      1. a permit to import the restricted firearm; or
        1. a permit to possess the restricted firearm.

        2. A licensed business that is a body corporate may only possess a restricted firearm if—

        3. the business licence held by a senior manager of the body corporate bears an endorsement permitting the possession of a restricted firearm; and
          1. the licensed business takes or took possession of the restricted firearm following the endorsement being made specific to the restricted firearm by the senior manager being issued with—
            1. a permit to import the restricted firearm; or
              1. a permit to possess the restricted firearm.

              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 7 years if the person, without reasonable excuse, contravenes this section.