Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) The registrar may, in accordance with any guidelines under section 37 (Minister's guidelines), do any of the following:
(a) declare something to be a firearm or imitation firearm;
(b) declare an unregulated firearm to be a prohibited firearm;
(c) declare that something is not a firearm, imitation firearm or prohibited firearm.
(2) A declaration remains in force for 3 months.
(3) A declaration is a disallowable instrument.
Note A disallowable instrument must be notified, and presented to the Legislative Assembly, under the Legislation Act
.
(4) The registrar must give additional public notice of the declaration.
Note Public notice means notice on an ACT government website or in a daily newspaper circulating in the ACT (see Legislation Act
, dict, pt 1). The requirement in s (4) is in addition to the requirement for notification on the legislation register as a notifiable instrument.