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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 magazines

34: Requirements for possession of restricted magazine

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"Rules for having a restricted magazine with a firearms licence"

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You can only have a restricted magazine if you have a firearms licence with a special note on it. This note must say you can have the restricted magazine. You might get this note if you have a permit to import or possess the magazine. If you are a business, you can only have a restricted magazine if your senior manager has a business licence with a special note on it. The note must say the business can have the restricted magazine. The business might get this note if the senior manager has a permit to import or possess the magazine. There are some exceptions to these rules. If you break these rules without a good reason, you could go to prison for up to 3 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 magazines

34Requirements for possession of restricted magazine

  1. An individual may only possess a restricted magazine if—

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

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

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

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