Firearms (Amendment) Regulations 1998 (Vic)

Firearms (Amendment) Regulations 1998

S.R. No. 6/1998

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Regulation Page

1.	Objectives	1
2.	Authorising provisions	1
3.	Commencement	1
4.	Principal Regulations	2
5.	Substitution of regulation 17	2
17. Exempt devices	2
6.	Insertion of regulation 19	2
19. Prescribed States for inter-state permit to acquire	2

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STATUTORY RULES 1998

S.R. No. 6/1998

Firearms Act 1996

Firearms (Amendment) Regulations 1998

The Governor in Council makes the following Regulations:
Dated: 28 January 1998

Responsible Minister:

BILL McGRATH

Minister for Police and Emergency Services

SHARNE BRYAN

Clerk of the Executive Council

1. Objectives

The objectives of these Regulations are to amend the Firearms Regulations 1997—

(a)	to prescribe classes of devices that do not fall within the definition of firearms; and
(b)	to prescribe States for the purposes of the definition of "inter-State permit to acquire".

2. Authorising provisions

These Regulations are made under sections 3 and

191 of the Firearms Act 1996.

3. Commencement

These Regulations come into operation on
2 February 1998.

Firearms (Amendment) Regulations 1998

r. 4 S.R. No. 6/1998

4. Principal Regulations

In these Regulations the Firearms Regulations

19971 are called the Principal Regulations.

5. Substitution of regulation 17

For regulation 17 of the Principal Regulations
substitute—

'17. Exempt devices

For the purposes of paragraph (j) of the
definition of "firearm" in section 3(1) of the

Act—

(a) a cannon or field gun, by whatever name, which has been constructed as a piece of military ordinance and which has a calibre in excess of 25 millimetres and—

(i) which is rendered permanently
inoperable; or

(ii)  for which fixed ammunition is not commercially available; and

(b) a device which is designed for and used to throw a net to catch animals (commonly known as a cannon net)—

are prescribed classes of devices.'.

6. Insertion of regulation 19

After regulation 18 of the Principal Regulations
insert—

'19. Prescribed States for inter-state permit to

acquire

For the purposes of the definition of
"prescribed State" in section 3(1) of the Act
the following States are prescribed—

Firearms (Amendment) Regulations 1998

S.R. No. 6/1998 r. 6

(a) New South Wales;
(b) South Australia.'.

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NOTES

1 S.R. No. 32/1997.