Firearms and Guns Act Amendment Act 1963 (WA)

No. 6.] Firearms and Guns. [1963.

FIREARMS AND GUNS.

12° Elizabeth II., No. VI.

No. 6 of 1963.

AN ACT to amend the Firearms and Guns

Act, 1931-1962.

[Assented to 3rd October, 1963.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, 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

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

Guns Act Amendment Act, 1963.

Reprinted as

approved for	(2) In this Act the Firearms and Guns Act, 1931-
reprint,

14th March,

1962, is referred to as the principal Act.

1963.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may

be cited as the Firearms and Guns Act, 1931-1963.

1963.] Firearms and Guns. [No. 6.

2. Section eleven A of the principal Act is Sinle1nAded.

amended

(a) by substituting for paragraph (c) of subsection (1) the following paragraph

(c) the owner of the firearm, not being the holder of a license to possess it, refuses, or fails, lawfully to dispose of the firearm, within a period of three months after notice in writing from the Commissioner, or within such longer period as the Commis- sioner may by the notice allow, requiring him to do so; or ;

(b) by adding after paragraph (c) of subsec- tion (1) the following paragraph

(d) the owner, not being the holder of a license to possess the firearm, dies. ;

and

(c) by adding, after subsection (2), the following subsection

(3) The Commissioner may, at the request of the owner and in his absolute discretion, accept any firearm for safe custody, subject to a n y prescribed conditions and on payment of the prescribed fee; and may sue for, and recover, any fees due and owing for the safe custody of a firearm, in any court of competent jurisdiction.

3. Section eighteen of the principal Act is	S 18
amended.

amended

(a) by substituting for paragraph (c) the following paragraph

(c) for the production to, and inspection by, an officer of police of any prescribed record; and for the giving of notice to the Commissioner of any dealing in, or delivery of, any class of firearms, with or to any class of persons;

and

(b) by deleting the proviso to paragraph (h).