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FIREARMS ACT 1996 - SECT 75

Requirement to notify Chief Commissioner of persons employed in business or change of nominated person

    (1)     The holder of a dealers licence must, immediately on the employment of a person in the business carried on under that licence, notify the Chief Commissioner of that employment.

Penalty:     60 penalty units or 12 months imprisonment.

    (2)     If the person nominated in an application under section 65 becomes a prohibited person during the course of a licence, the holder of the licence must nominate another person to be responsible for the day to day management of the business on the premises and must immediately notify the Chief Commissioner of that nomination.

Penalty:     60 penalty units or 12 months imprisonment.

    (3)     At any time during the course of the licence, the holder of the licence may nominate a person to replace the person nominated in the application under section 65 and must immediately notify the Chief Commissioner of that nomination.

Penalty:     20 penalty units.

    (4)     A notice under this section must—

        (a)     be in writing; and

        (b)     be accompanied by—

S. 75(4)(b)(i) substituted by No. 44/2021 s. 16.

              (i)     proof of the identity of the person in a form approved by the Chief Commissioner; and

S. 75(4)(b)(ii) substituted by No. 20/2015 s. 57(1).

              (ii)     subject to subsection (5), a full set of the person's fingerprints.

Penalty:     20 penalty units.

S. 75(5) inserted by No. 20/2015 s. 57(2).

    (5)     A notice under this section is not required to be accompanied by the person's fingerprints if the person is employed solely for the purpose of officiating at a paintball game.

S. 75A inserted by No. 28/2003 s. 36.



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