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General requirements - Requirements for carrying on business activities - Requirements relating to possession of certain arms items for business activities

59: Requirements relating to possession of restricted part for business activities

You could also call this:

"Rules for businesses having restricted firearm parts"

If you have a business licence, you can possess a restricted part for your business if you are allowed to do so. You must have a business licence that lets you possess a restricted firearm and you must have got the restricted part in a certain way. You can get the restricted part if you have a permit to import it or if you got it from someone who is allowed to have it. If you break these rules without a good reason, you can get in trouble. As an individual running a business, you could go to prison for up to 3 years or get a fine of up to $20,000. The same thing can happen to the senior manager of a company that breaks these rules. These rules are connected to other parts of the law, like section 334. You need to follow these rules to stay out of trouble. The law says what you can and can't do with restricted parts for your business.

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58: Requirements relating to possession of restricted firearm, restricted magazine, pistol, pistol carbine conversion kit, or restricted weapon for business activities, or

"Rules for businesses using restricted firearms and weapons"

60: Requirement for employees of licensed business to hold firearms licence, or

"Staff of licensed arms businesses must have a firearms licence to work with guns."

Part 2General requirements
Requirements for carrying on business activities: Requirements relating to possession of certain arms items for business activities

59Requirements relating to possession of restricted part for business activities

A licensed business may possess a restricted part for the purpose of carrying on a business activity if—
the holder of the business licence is authorised to carry on the business activity in relation to the restricted part; and
the business licence bears an endorsement permitting the possession of a restricted firearm; and
either—
1. the holder of the business licence has been issued with a permit to import the restricted part; or
2. the restricted part has been obtained from—
  1. a person who holds a firearms licence that bears an endorsement permitting the possession of a restricted firearm; or
  2. a licensed business and the business licence is held by the individual (in the case of a licensed business that is an individual) or a senior manager of a body corporate (in the case of a licensed business that is a body corporate) that bears an endorsement permitting the possession of a restricted firearm.

A licensed business that is an individual commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years, or to a fine not exceeding $20,000, if the individual, without reasonable excuse, contravenes subsection (1).
The senior manager of a body corporate that is a licensed business commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years, or to a fine not exceeding $20,000, if the body corporate, without reasonable excuse, contravenes subsection (1).
Subsections (2) and (3) are subject to section 334.