Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

FIREARMS ACT 1996 - SECT 190

    (1)     A licensed firearms dealer commits an offence if the dealer—

        (a)     employs a prohibited person in the business authorised by the licence; or

        (b)     allows a prohibited person to act as an agent for, or take part in the management of, the business.

Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 10 years.

    (2)     A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     the person is a prohibited person; and

        (b)     either—

              (i)     a licensed firearms dealer employs the person in the business authorised by the licence; or

              (ii)     a licensed firearms dealer allows the person to act as an agent for, or take part in the management of, the business.

Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 10 years.

    (3)     It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1) if the licensed firearms dealer proves that the dealer did not know, and could not reasonably be expected to have known, that the individual employed or allowed to act as an agent for, or to take part in the management of, the business was a prohibited person.