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Licences and approvals - Visitor licences - Applying for visitor licence

122: Persons disqualified from holding visitor licence

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"Who can't get a visitor licence to have guns"

You cannot get a visitor licence if you have been convicted of certain crimes in the last 10 years. These crimes include serious violence, using or supplying drugs, and dishonesty. You can be disqualified in New Zealand or overseas.

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121: Application for visitor licence, or

"How visitors to New Zealand can get a licence to use guns"

123: Fit and proper persons to hold visitor licence, or

"Who can get a visitor licence to have firearms?"

Part 3Licences and approvals
Visitor licences: Applying for visitor licence

122Persons disqualified from holding visitor licence

A person is disqualified from holding a visitor licence if the person has, within the previous 10 years, been convicted, or been released from custody after being convicted, in New Zealand or overseas of any of the following types of offences:
an offence involving serious violence:
an offence relating to the use, possession, or supply of drugs:
an offence involving dishonesty.