Page 2316 - Week 07 - Thursday, 4 August 2016
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Clause 10, as amended, agreed to.
Clause 11
MR RATTENBURY (Molonglo) (12.23): I will be opposing this clause.
Clause 11 agreed to.
Clauses 12 to 28, by leave, taken together and agreed to.
Clause 29
MR RATTENBURY (Molonglo) (12.24): I also oppose this clause.
Clause 29 agreed to.
Clause 30
MR RATTENBURY (Molonglo) (12.24): I am opposed to this clause as well.
Clause 30 agreed to.
Proposed new part 7A
MR CORBELL (Molonglo—Deputy Chief Minister, Attorney-General, Minister for Health, Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Minister for the Environment and Climate Change) (12.25): I move amendment No 8 circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page 2386]. Amendment 8 inserts new part 7A which amends the Firearms Act to clarify that imitation firearms are prohibited firearms. This is the case regardless of whether the item is capable of discharging a projectile.
New section 23A outlines this noting that it is subject to three factors: the registrar must not issue a licence for the possession or use of an imitation firearm except to a firearms dealer; the registrar may issue a permit for the possession or use of an imitation firearm; and an imitation firearm is not required to be registered.
Amendment 8 clarifies that for the purposes of the act an imitation pistol is taken to be a pistol and an imitation prohibited firearm is taken to be a prohibited firearm. Amendment 8 inserts a new definition of “imitation firearm” into the dictionary of the Firearms Act stating that it is something that:
regardless of its colour, weight, composition or the presence or absence of moveable parts, substantially duplicates in appearance a firearm but is not a firearm;
The definition also provides that an imitation firearm does not include a children’s toy, something prescribed by regulation not to be an imitation firearm or something declared not to be an imitation firearm under section 31 of the act.
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