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Arms Bill

General requirements - Requirements for carrying on business activities - Carrying on business activities

57: Persons carrying on business activity must be licensed

You could also call this:

"Businesses selling guns must have a licence"

Illustration for Arms Bill

If you want to carry on a business activity with arms items, you must be a licensed business. You are a licensed business if you are an individual with a business licence or a company with a senior manager who has a business licence. If you do not follow this rule, you can get in trouble and even go to prison or pay a fine.

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Part 2General requirements
Requirements for carrying on business activities: Carrying on business activities

57Persons carrying on business activity must be licensed

  1. A person may carry on a business activity in relation to a class of arms items only if the person is a licensed business.

  2. A person is a licensed business if the person is—

  3. an individual who holds a business licence authorising the individual to carry on 1 or more business activities in relation to 1 or more classes of arms items; or
    1. a body corporate that has a senior manager who holds a business licence authorising the senior manager to carry on 1 or more business activities in relation to 1 or more classes of arms items.

      1. A person commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 1 year, or to a fine not exceeding $15,000, if the person, without reasonable excuse, contravenes this section.