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Licences and approvals - Museum worker licences - Applying for museum worker licence

112: Issue of museum worker licence

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"Getting a licence to handle guns at a museum"

The chief executive may give you a museum worker licence if you work at a museum with a curator who has a curator licence. You must meet the criteria in section 111(1) and be a fit and proper person to hold a firearms licence, as explained in section 69. This licence lets you possess, display, and store certain arms items in the museum.

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111: Application for museum worker licence, or

"How to get a licence to work with guns in a museum"

113: Museum worker licence not transferable, or

"A museum worker licence is just for the person who gets it."

Part 3Licences and approvals
Museum worker licences: Applying for museum worker licence

112Issue of museum worker licence

The chief executive may grant a museum worker licence to an applicant if—
the curator of the museum at which the applicant works, or proposes to work, holds a curator licence; and
the chief executive is satisfied that the applicant—
1. meets the criteria specified in section 111(1); and
2. is a fit and proper person to hold a firearms licence (see section 69).

A museum worker licence authorises the museum worker to possess, display, and store 1 or more specified classes of arms items in the museum specified in the licence.