New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FIREARMS ACT 1996 - SECT 17C

17C Special provisions relating to firearms collector licences (post-1946 pistols)

The Commissioner may issue a firearms collector licence that authorises a person to possess a post-1946 pistol if--

(a) the person produces evidence to the Commissioner that the person has been a member of a collectors' society or club for at least one year, and

(b) the application for the licence is supported by a written statement by the secretary or other relevant office holder of the collectors' society or club of which the person is a member confirming that the part of the person's firearms collection comprising post-1946 pistols has a genuine commemorative, historical, thematic or financial value.

Note : See also the Table to section 12 which provides that one of the requirements for the genuine reason of firearms collection is that the applicant for the licence must be a current member of an approved collectors' society or club.