Weapons Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2000 (WA)

1122 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 110 March 2000

PE301*

Weapons Act 1999

Weapons Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2000

Made by the deputy of the Governor in Executive Council.

1.            Citation

These regulations may be cited as the Weapons Amendment
Regulations (No. 2) 2000.

2.            The regulations amended

The amendments in these regulations are to the Weapons
Regulations 1999*.

[* Published in Gazette 31 August 1999, pp. 4225-32.]

3.            Regulation 9 inserted

Before Schedule 1 the following regulation is inserted —

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9.	Exception for exempt collectors of specified prohibited weapons
(1)	An exempt collector or any other person who, for the purpose of adding to an exempt collector's private collection —

(a)	brings or sends into the State a specified prohibited weapon; or
(b)	purchases a specified prohibited weapon from a person who is lawfully entitled to sell the weapon,
Act.

does not commit an offence under section 6(1)(a) or (c)

of the Act.

(2) An exempt collector or any other person who, for the

purpose of keeping, adding to, or disposing of all or
any of an exempt collector's private collection, carries
or possesses a specified prohibited weapon does not

commit an offence under section 6(1)(b) of the Act.

(3) An exempt collector or any other person who, for the

purpose of disposing of all or any of an exempt
collector's private collection, sells or supplies a
specified prohibited weapon to a person who is
lawfully entitled to purchase or possess the weapon
does not commit an offence under section 6(1)(c) of the

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(4) If the Minister is satisfied that —

(a)	a person was on or before 29 February 2000 a genuine collector of specified prohibited weapons;
(b)	the person is fit and proper to be an exempt collector of specified prohibited weapons; and
(c)	adequate arrangements exist to keep the collection secure,

the Minister may give to the person written notice that

the person is an exempt collector.

(5) If, after giving a notice under subregulation (4), the

Minister is no longer satisfied as to any of the
circumstances described in that subregulation, the
Minister may give to the exempt collector written
notice that, on a day specified in the notice (being a day
that is not less than 30 days after the notice is given),
the person ceases to be an exempt collector, and the

notice has effect accordingly.

(6) In this regulation —
"exempt collector" means a person who has been

given a notice under subregulation (4) and has not
ceased to be an exempt collector because of a

notice under subregulation (5);

"specified prohibited weapon" means an article

described in the third column of item 3, 7, 10, 11,

12 or 13 of Schedule 1.

By Command of the deputy of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.