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Arms Bill

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

52: Requirement for selling or supplying restricted part

You could also call this:

"Selling restricted gun parts: you must sell to licensed owners only"

Illustration for Arms Bill

If you want to sell or supply a restricted part, you can only do so to someone who holds a firearms licence that lets them possess a restricted firearm. You must also meet certain conditions, such as having a firearms licence with the right endorsement or being a licensed business. If you break this rule without a good reason, you could go to prison for up to 3 years.

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

52Requirement for selling or supplying restricted part

  1. A person (A) may only sell or supply a restricted part to any other person (B) if—

  2. A—
    1. holds a firearms licence that bears an endorsement permitting them to possess a restricted firearm; or
      1. is a licensed business; and
      2. B holds a firearms licence that bears an endorsement permitting them to possess a restricted firearm.

        1. Subsection (1) is subject to any other provision of this Act that provides otherwise.

        2. 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 subsection (1).