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Arms Bill

General requirements - Requirements for manufacturing arms items and air pistol carbine conversion kits

64: Certain business licence holders may manufacture restricted items

You could also call this:

"Some businesses can make restricted items if they follow the rules and have a special licence."

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If you want to make restricted items, you must follow some rules. You can make these items if you have a special business licence that says you can. This licence must also have a special note that says you can have the restricted item. If you make a restricted firearm without following the rules, you could go to prison for up to 7 years. You could also go to prison if you make a restricted magazine or part without following the rules, but for up to 3 years. You must get a special permit before you make the restricted item, and your business licence must be endorsed for that item. You must do these things if you are a licensed business or the senior manager of a licensed business. If you do not follow the rules, you will be breaking the law and could be punished. The rules say what you must do to make restricted items legally.

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Part 2General requirements
Requirements for manufacturing arms items and air pistol carbine conversion kits

64Certain business licence holders may manufacture restricted items

  1. A person may not manufacture any restricted item unless—

  2. the person is a licensed business described in section 82(2) or (3) and the business licence authorises the manufacture of the restricted item; and
    1. the business licence bears an endorsement permitting possession of the restricted item; and
      1. before the restricted item is manufactured, the endorsement has been made specific to the restricted item by the issue of a permit to possess the item.

        1. An individual who is a licensed business, or 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 7 years if the licensed business, without reasonable excuse, contravenes subsection (1) and manufactures a restricted firearm.

        2. An individual who is a licensed business, or 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 if the licensed business, without reasonable excuse, contravenes subsection (1) and manufactures a restricted magazine or restricted part.