South Australian Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

FIREARMS REGULATIONS 1993 - SCHEDULE 2

Schedule 2—Transitional provisions

1         The conditions prescribed by paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of subregulation (8) of regulation 19 do not come into force in respect of a licence in force immediately before the commencement of the Firearms (Miscellaneous) Amendment Act 1996 until the expiration of three months after the commencement of that subregulation.

2         (1)         Subclauses (2), (3) and (4) only apply in relation to a person referred to in clause 4(1) of the Schedule of the Act.

        (2)         A class C or D firearm owned by a person to whom this subclause applies as part of a collection immediately before the commencement of the Firearms (Miscellaneous) Amendment Act 1996 may be used by the owner for the purposes of display until and including the application date if the owner complies with the conditions prescribed by regulation 19(8).

        (3)         A class C firearm owned immediately before the commencement of the Firearms (Miscellaneous) Amendment Act 1996 by a person to whom this subclause applies being a person who was immediately before the commencement of that Act a member of a recognised firearms club affiliated with The South Australian Clay Target Association Incorporated or the Australian Clay Target Association Incorporated may be used by the owner until and including the application date for the purpose of an activity of the club conducted in accordance with the rules of the Australian Clay Target Association Incorporated.

        (4)         If the Royal Zoological Society of South Australia Incorporated is a person referred to in clause 4(1) of the Schedule of the Act, a class C firearm owned by the Society immediately before the commencement of the Firearms (Miscellaneous) Amendment Act 1996 for the operation of its zoos may be used by the Society for that purpose until and including the application date.

3         A person who was the owner of an unregistered firearm that was an obsolete firearm immediately before the commencement of the Firearms (Miscellaneous) Amendment Act 1996—

            (a)         is not guilty of an offence against section 23 of the Act if the firearm is registered on or before 31 December 1996 or is lawfully transferred to another person or is surrendered to the Registrar on or before that date;

            (b)         may register the firearm on or before that date without payment of the registration fee.