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Arms Bill

General requirements - Requirements for selling or supplying arms items and ammunition - Selling or supplying pistol carbine conversion kits or large-capacity pistol magazines

44: Requirements for selling or supplying pistol carbine conversion kit or large-capacity pistol magazine

You could also call this:

"Selling pistol kits and large magazines: you need a special licence"

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If you want to sell or supply a pistol carbine conversion kit, you can only do this to someone who has a firearms licence with a special endorsement for pistols. This endorsement must also be specific to the pistol carbine conversion kit, which means the person must have a permit to import or possess the kit. You can only sell or supply a large-capacity pistol magazine to someone who has a firearms licence with a special endorsement for large-capacity pistol magazines. If you break these rules without a good reason, you can be charged with an offence and could go 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 pistol carbine conversion kits or large-capacity pistol magazines

44Requirements for selling or supplying pistol carbine conversion kit or large-capacity pistol magazine

  1. A person may only sell or supply a pistol carbine conversion kit to another person (B) if—

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

        2. A person may only sell or supply a large-capacity pistol magazine to another person (B) if B holds a firearms licence that bears an endorsement permitting B to possess a large-capacity pistol magazine.

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

        4. 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 subsection (1) or (2).