New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FIREARMS ACT 1996 - SECT 39

39 General requirement

(1) A person who possesses a firearm must take all reasonable precautions to ensure--

(a) its safe keeping, and

(b) that it is not stolen or lost, and

(c) that it does not come into the possession of a person who is not authorised to possess the firearm.

: Maximum penalty--50 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years, or both, if it is established beyond reasonable doubt that the firearm concerned was a prohibited firearm or a pistol, or 20 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months, or both, in any other case.

Note : Reference to a pistol includes a prohibited pistol.

(2) The regulations may specify the precautions that are taken to be reasonable precautions for the purposes of this section.