Firearms Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2006 (WA)

12 January 2007 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 53

POLICE

PO301*

Firearms Act 1973

Firearms Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2006

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.             Citation

These regulations are the Firearms Amendment Regulations
(No. 2) 2006.

2.             The regulations amended

The amendments in these regulations are to the Firearms
Regulations 1974*.

[* Reprint 5 as at 15 April 2005.

For amendments to 12 October 2006 see Western Australian
Legislation Information Tables for 2005, Table 4, and
Gazette 27 June 2006.]

3.             Regulation 26 amended

The Table to regulation 26 is amended after the item “imprint
free (accelerator) ammunition” by inserting the following
item —

“ frangible ammunition ”.

4.             Regulation 26B replaced

Regulation 26B is repealed and the following regulation is
inserted instead —

“

26B.	Certain licences, permits and approvals not to be issued, granted or given
(1)	In this regulation —
“revolving rifle” means a rifle the ammunition for which is loaded into and fired from a revolving cylinder or revolving chamber.
(2)	A licence, permit or approval relating to a firearm cannot be issued, granted or given if —

(a) in the opinion of the Commissioner, the firearm closely resembles a firearm that is prohibited under regulation 26; or

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(b)	in the opinion of the Commissioner, the firearm is designed to be, or capable of being, readily adapted for use as a handgun; or
(c)	the firearm is specified in the Table to subregulation (4); or
(d)	subject to subregulation (3), the firearm is a revolving rifle.

(3) Subregulation (2)(d) does not prevent a licence, permit
or approval being issued, granted or given for a
revolving rifle if —

(a)	the revolving rifle is a single action revolving rifle; and
(b)	in the opinion of the Commissioner, the revolving rifle has significant commemorative, historical, thematic or heirloom value.

(4) The following firearms are specified for the purpose of
subregulation (2)(c) —

Table

Calibre Description of firearm

.22 calibre	Armi Jager model AP 15 semi-automatic rifle
.22 calibre	Armi Jager model AP 75 semi-automatic rifle
.22 calibre	Josef G: Landmann-Preetz model JGL — Automat 65 semi-automatic rifle
.22 calibre	Squibman Model 16 semi-automatic rifle
.223 calibre	Remington make, 7615P model, pump-action rifle
.223 calibre	Vektor make, H 5 model, pump-action rifle
7.62 x 39 calibre	Cugir pump-action (Romanian make) rifle

”.

By Command of the Governor,

G. M. PIKE, Clerk of the Executive Council.

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