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Licences and approvals - Curator licences - Applying for curator licence

101: Issue of curator licence

You could also call this:

"Getting a licence to look after special arms items in a museum"

The chief executive can give you a curator licence if they think you are suitable. You must have a firearms licence and be a fit and proper person to have the arms items. The museum where you want to keep the arms items must have secure storage. If you get a curator licence, it means you can have, show, and store certain arms items in a museum. The licence will say what types of arms items you are allowed to have. Your curator licence must say what types of arms items you can have, such as restricted firearms or pistols. It will also say if you can have restricted magazines or other restricted parts.

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100: Fit and proper person to hold curator licence, or

"Who can be trusted to look after arms items in a museum?"

102: Curator licence issued for possessing, displaying, and storing arms items in specified museum, or

"Licence to have and display arms in a museum"

Part 3Licences and approvals
Curator licences: Applying for curator licence

101Issue of curator licence

The chief executive may issue a curator licence to an applicant if the chief executive is satisfied that—
the applicant—
1. holds a firearms licence; and
2. is a fit and proper person to possess, display, and store the class or classes of arms items specified in the application; and
the museum specified in the application has secure storage facilities appropriate for the class or classes of arms items specified in the application.

A curator licence authorises the licence holder to possess, display, and store 1 or more specified classes of arms items in a specified museum.
A curator licence must bear an appropriate endorsement authorising the licence holder to possess, display, and store any of the following classes of arms items:
restricted firearms:
restricted magazines:
pistols:
large-capacity pistol magazines:
pistol carbine conversion kits:
restricted weapons:
restricted parts.