Firearms Amendment Act 1980 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

FIREARMS.

No. 35 of 1980.

AN ACT to amend section six and section nineteen A

of the Firearms Act 1973-1978.

[Assented to 5 November 19801

RE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council and the Legislative

Assembly of Western Australia, in this present

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the

same, as follows:—

Short title

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Firearms and

Amendment Act 1980.	citation.
Act No. 36

(2) In this Act the Firearms Act 1973-1978 is

of 1973 as

amended bY

referred to as the principal Act.

Acts Nos.

61 of 1976

and

54 of 1978.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Firearms Act 1973-1980.

No. 35.] Firearms. [1980.

Commence-

2.    This Act shall come into operation on a day

ment.

to be fixed by proclamation.

Section 6

amended. 3. Section 6 of the principal Act is amended by

inserting after subsection (1) the following sub-

section

" (la) Notwithstanding that any licence may have been issued, permit granted, or approval given under this Act in relation to any firearm or ammunition of that kind, the Governor, on the recommendation of the Commissioner, may, in relation to any firearm or ammunition which is in the opinion of the Commissioner of a kind requiring the exercise of special precautions and is therein specified, make regulations

(a)	directing that no licence, permit or approval relating thereto shall be issued or given;
(b)	directing that no licence, permit or approval relating thereto shall be capable of being renewed after a date specified in the regulations; or
(c)	otherwise making such provision as may be expedient in relation thereto,

and for the purposes of section 22 the exercise of any power pursuant to those regulations shall not be taken to have been a decision made by or on behalf of the Commissioner. " .

Section 19A

amended. 4. Section 19A of the principal Act is amended

(a) in paragraph (c) of subsection (1), by deleting "penalty of twenty dollars" and substituting the following-

" amount prescribed by way of

penalty " ;

and

(b) in paragraph (a) of subsection (2), by deleting "an amount of twenty dollars" and substituting the following-

" the amount prescribed " .