Firearms Amendment (Miscellaneous) Regulation 2007 (NSW)

2007 No 627

New South Wales

Firearms Amendment (Miscellaneous)

Regulation 2007

under the

Firearms Act 1996

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Firearms Act 1996.

DAVID CAMPBELL, M.P.,

Minister for Police

Explanatory note
The objects of this Regulation are as follows:

(a)	to enable the Game Council to give permission to shoot on rural land for the genuine reason of recreational hunting/vermin control, and
(b)	to extend, for a period of 1 year, the operation of an amnesty provision that allows the possession, without a licence under the Firearms Act 1996, of certain percussion lock pistols manufactured before 1900 that use black powder.

This Regulation is made under the Firearms Act 1996, including sections 12 and 88 (2) (r).

Published in Gazette No 185 of 21 December 2007, page 9849	Page 1
2007 No 627
Clause 1	Firearms Amendment (Miscellaneous) Regulation 2007

Firearms Amendment (Miscellaneous) Regulation 2007

under the

Firearms Act 1996

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Firearms Amendment (Miscellaneous)
Regulation 2007.

2 Amendment of Firearms Regulation 2006

The Firearms Regulation 2006 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

2007 No 627

Firearms Amendment (Miscellaneous) Regulation 2007

Amendments	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendments

(Clause 2)

[1]      Clause 31A

Insert after clause 31:

31A Recreational hunting/vermin control—prescribed authority

The Game Council is prescribed as an authority for the purposes of the genuine reason of recreational hunting/vermin control.

[2]      Clause 117 Temporary licensing and registration amnesty for certain percussion lock pistols manufactured before 1900

Omit “31 December 2007” from the definition of amnesty period in clause
117 (1).

Insert instead “31 December 2008”.

BY AUTHORITY