South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts31A—Period of grace on cancellation, suspension etc of licence
(1) Subject to this
Act, where—
(a) a
licence authorising possession of a firearm is cancelled or suspended; or
(b)
the Registrar refuses to renew such a licence; or
(d) the
registration of a firearm is cancelled,
the person who held, or applied for renewal of, the licence or in whose name
the firearm was registered (as the case may require) may, in order to dispose
of the firearm, retain possession of it for one month.
(2) Where a licence
authorising possession of a firearm is suspended under this Act, the person
who held the licence may retain the power of disposition over the firearm
if—
(a) the
firearm is kept by a person who holds a dealer's licence or a person approved
by the Registrar; and
(b) the
person who held the licence does not have access to the firearm.
(3) A person referred
to in this section who uses the firearm for any purpose before disposing of it
in accordance with this section is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty:
Where the firearm is a prescribed firearm or a class C, D or H
firearm—$10 000 or imprisonment for two years.
Where the firearm is any other kind of firearm—$5 000 or imprisonment
for one year.
(4) A person who
receives a firearm (the subject of a licence that is suspended) for the
purpose of keeping it in accordance with subsection (2) and who does not
forthwith notify the Registrar of that receipt is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: $5 000.