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Arms Bill

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

65: Requirements for manufacture of certain arms items by business licence holders

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"Rules for businesses making certain arms items in New Zealand"

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If you have a business licence to make and sell certain arms items, you must follow some rules. You need to get approval from the chief executive to make these items and have a permit to possess them. The chief executive must be satisfied there are special reasons for these items to be in New Zealand. You must get approval for the type of item and how many you plan to make. The chief executive has to be sure that air pistol carbine conversion kits are for a club member's personal use. If you do not follow these rules, you might get an improvement notice or have your business licence suspended. The chief executive's approval is necessary before you start making these arms items. You have to meet certain conditions to get this approval. If you break the rules, you could face penalties like an improvement notice or a suspended licence.

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Requirements for manufacturing arms items and air pistol carbine conversion kits

65Requirements for manufacture of certain arms items by business licence holders

  1. This section applies if a business licence is issued for the purpose of carrying on a business activity relating to the manufacture for sale, hire, lending, or other supply of any of the following classes of arms items:

  2. pistols:
    1. restricted items:
      1. pistol carbine conversion kits:
        1. air pistol carbine conversion kits.

          1. Before manufacturing any class of arms items referred to in subsection (1), a licensed business must—

          2. obtain the approval of the chief executive to manufacture—
            1. the class of arms items; and
              1. the number of items in that class intended to be manufactured; and
              2. have a permit to possess each of the items.

                1. Before approving the manufacture of any class of arms items specified in subsection (1)(a), (b), or (c), the chief executive must be satisfied that there are special reasons why the items that are proposed to be manufactured should be in New Zealand.

                2. The chief executive must, before approving the manufacture of air pistol carbine conversion kits, also be satisfied that the kits are for the personal use of a member of an airsoft or a paintball club that is affiliated with a national airsoft or paintball organisation.

                3. A licensed business that fails to comply with subsection (2) may—

                4. be issued with an improvement notice under section 181; or
                  1. have its business licence suspended under section 145.