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FIREARMS ACT 1996 - SECT 116

Notice of removal from the State

    (1)     A person who removes a firearm from the State for the purpose of no longer keeping it in the State must give notice of the removal of that firearm to the Chief Commissioner.

Penalty:     240 penalty units or 4 years imprisonment.

    (2)     A notice under subsection (1) must be—

        (a)     in the form approved by the Chief Commissioner; and

        (b)     given not less than 7 days before the firearm is removed from the State.

Penalty:     40 penalty units.

S. 116(3) inserted by No. 84/1997 s. 46.

    (3)     This section does not apply to a person who removes a firearm from the State for the purpose of no longer keeping it in the State where that firearm has been acquired in accordance with an inter-State permit to acquire and that firearm has been acquired in circumstances to which section 102(5) or (6) applies.

S. 117 amended by No. 50/2007 s. 30 (ILA s. 39B(1)).



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