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Arms Bill

Miscellaneous provisions - Delivery or surrender of arms items and ammunition

332: Licensed business to notify and surrender certain items received

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"Licensed businesses must report and hand over certain firearms or ammo to the Police if required"

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If you have a licensed business, you must tell the chief executive within 5 working days if you get any arms items or ammunition. The chief executive may then ask you to give the items to the Police for inspection. You must do this within 5 working days. If you get certain items like pistols or restricted weapons, you may have to give them to the Police within 5 working days. You can keep the items if you have the right licence or if the chief executive says you can. If you follow the rules, you will not be breaking the law. You do not have to record the details of the items you receive if you tell the chief executive within 5 working days. This is a proposed change to the law, so it may not be in effect yet.

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Part 8Miscellaneous provisions
Delivery or surrender of arms items and ammunition

332Licensed business to notify and surrender certain items received

  1. A licensed business that receives any arms item or ammunition into its possession under section 331 must, within 5 working days, notify the chief executive of the receipt of the arms item or ammunition.

  2. After receiving a notification under subsection (1),—

  3. the chief executive may require the licensed business to surrender the arms item or ammunition to the nearest Police station for inspection and to enable inquiries to be made; and
    1. the licensed business must comply with the request within 5 working days.

      1. Subsections (4) to (6) apply in addition to subsections (1) and (2) if a licensed business receives any of the following items under section 331:

      2. a pistol:
        1. a large-capacity pistol magazine:
          1. a pistol carbine conversion kit:
            1. a restricted weapon:
              1. a restricted item.

                1. If the business licence held in respect of the licensed business does not have an endorsement permitting possession of the kind of item received by the licensed business, the licensed business must surrender the item to the nearest Police station within 5 working days of receipt.

                2. If the licensed business is not required to surrender the arms item or ammunition under subsection (2) or (4), the licensed business may—

                3. retain the item until the chief executive decides whether to require the licensed business to surrender of the item; or
                  1. surrender the item to the nearest Police station within 5 working days of receipt.

                    1. If a licensed business retains an item under subsection (5)(a), the licensed business must, within 5 working days of the receipt of the item, apply for a permit to possess the item (unless the item is a restricted part).

                    2. A licensed business may retain possession of any arms item or ammunition that it receives under section 331 if—

                    3. the licensed business is not required to surrender the arms item or ammunition under subsection (2) or (4); or
                      1. the licensed business, following an application made under subsection (6), is issued with a permit to possess the arms item and the chief executive decides not to require the licensed business to surrender the item.

                        1. A licensed business that complies with subsections (1) to (7) after receiving a restricted firearm, restricted magazine, pistol, large-capacity pistol magazine, pistol carbine conversion kit, or restricted weapon does not contravene section 57.

                        2. A licensed business that complies with subsection (1) need not record for the purposes of section 97 the particulars of any arms item or ammunition received under section 331.