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Arms Bill

General requirements - Requirements for selling or supplying arms items and ammunition - Selling or supplying pistols and restricted weapons

42: Requirement for selling or supplying pistol or restricted weapon

You could also call this:

"Selling pistols or restricted weapons: buyers must have a special licence"

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If you want to sell or supply a pistol or restricted weapon to someone, they must have a firearms licence. This licence must have an endorsement that lets them possess a pistol or restricted weapon. The endorsement must be specific to the pistol or restricted weapon. You can make the endorsement specific by getting a permit to import or possess the pistol or restricted weapon. There may be other rules in this Act that change this requirement. If you break this rule, you can be sent to prison for up to 7 years.

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Part 2General requirements
Requirements for selling or supplying arms items and ammunition: Selling or supplying pistols and restricted weapons

42Requirement for selling or supplying pistol or restricted weapon

  1. A person may only sell or supply a pistol or restricted weapon to another person (B) if—

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

        2. Subsection (1) is 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 contravenes subsection (1).