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SUMMARY OFFENCES ACT 1953 - SECT 21I

21I—Effect of weapons prohibition order

        (1)         A person to whom a weapons prohibition order applies is disqualified from obtaining an exemption under section 21F.

        (2)         While a weapons prohibition order applies to a person—

            (a)         any exemption under Schedule 2 does not apply in relation to the person unless the Schedule expressly provides that it will apply to such a person; and

            (b)         any exemption held by the person under section 21F is suspended.

        (3)         A person to whom a weapons prohibition order applies must not manufacture, sell, distribute, supply, deal with, use or possess a prohibited weapon.

Maximum penalty: $35 000 or imprisonment for 4 years.

        (4)         A person to whom a weapons prohibition order applies—

            (a)         must not be present at—

                  (i)         a place at which a person carries on the business of manufacturing, repairing, modifying or testing prohibited weapons or buying, selling or hiring out, prohibited weapons; or

                  (ii)         any other place of a kind prescribed by regulation; and

            (b)         must not be in the company of a person who has a prohibited weapon on or about his or her person or under his or her immediate physical control.

Maximum penalty: $10 000 or imprisonment for 2 years.

        (5)         It is a defence to prosecution for an offence against subsection (4)(a) to prove that the person did not know, and could not reasonably be expected to have known, that the place was a place of a kind referred to in that paragraph.

        (6)         It is a defence to prosecution for an offence against subsection (4)(b) to prove that the person did not know, and could not reasonably be expected to have known, that the other person had a prohibited weapon on or about his or her person or under his or her immediate physical control.

        (7)         A person to whom a weapons prohibition order applies must—

            (a)         as soon as reasonably practicable after becoming aware of the presence of a prohibited weapon on premises at which the person resides, notify the Commissioner of that fact in the manner (if any) prescribed by the regulations; and

            (b)         comply with—

                  (i)         a direction of the Commissioner, given in response to that notification, that the person must not reside at the premises; or

                  (ii)         any other direction of the Commissioner, given in response to that notification, in relation to the weapon.

Maximum penalty: $10 000 or imprisonment for 2 years.

        (8)         A person must not supply a prohibited weapon to a person to whom a weapons prohibition order applies or permit such a person to gain possession of a prohibited weapon.

Maximum penalty: $35 000 or imprisonment for 4 years.

        (9)         It is a defence to prosecution for an offence against subsection (8) to prove that the person did not know, and could not reasonably be expected to have known, that a weapons prohibition order applies to the person.

        (10)         For the purposes of this section, if a person to whom a weapons prohibition order applies—

            (a)         is on or in premises or a vehicle, vessel or aircraft (other than any premises, vehicle, vessel or aircraft to which the public are admitted) when a prohibited weapon is on or in, or in the immediate vicinity of, the premises, vehicle, vessel or aircraft; or

            (b)         was on or in premises or a vehicle, vessel or aircraft (other than any premises, vehicle, vessel or aircraft to which the public are admitted) immediately before a prohibited weapon was on or in, or in the immediate vicinity of, the premises, vehicle, vessel or aircraft,

the person will be taken to possess the prohibited weapon unless it is proved that—

            (c)         the person has notified the Commissioner of the presence of the weapon in accordance with subsection (7); or

            (d)         the person did not know, and could not reasonably be expected to have known, that the weapon was on or in, or in the immediate vicinity of, the premises, vehicle, vessel or aircraft.

        (11)         The Commissioner may exempt a person, unconditionally or subject to conditions, from a specified provision of this section and may vary or revoke an exemption by notice in writing served personally or by registered post on the holder of the exemption.



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