Firearms Amendment Act 1994 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

FIREARMS AMENDMENT

ACT 1994

No. 90 of 1994

AN ACT to amend the Firearms Act 1973.

[Assented to 5 January 1995.]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Firearms Amendment Act 1994.

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Commencement

2.     This Act comes into operation on the day on which it

receives the Royal Assent.

Principal Act

3. In this Act the Firearms Act 1973* is referred to as the

principal Act.

[* Reprint approved 22 April 1983.

For subsequent amendments see 1993 Index to

Legislation of Western Australia, Table 1, p. 77.]

Section 20 amended

4.     Section 20 (1) of the principal Act is amended by inserting

after paragraph (a) the following paragraph —

(aa) that harm may be suffered by any person as a result of a person retaining or regaining possession of a firearm;

Section 24 amended

5.     Section 24 (2) of the principal Act is repealed and the

following subsection is substituted —

(2) A member of the Police Force may, without

warrant, seize and take possession of any firearm or

ammunition that is in the possession of a person

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licensed or otherwise authorized to possess it if, in the

opinion of the member of the Police Force —

(a)	possession of it by that person may result in harm being suffered by any person; or
(b)	that person is not at the time a fit and

proper person to be in possession of it.