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FIREARMS ACT 1996 - SECT 96A

Employment restrictions, &c.

(1)  The holder of a firearms dealer licence must not employ a proscribed person in a job that gives the proscribed person access to any firearms or ammunition dealt with under the licence.
Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 40 penalty units or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or both.
(2)  A proscribed person must not apply for or accept employment that gives the proscribed person access to any firearms or ammunition dealt with under a firearms dealer licence.
Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 40 penalty units or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or both.
(3)  The holder of a firearms dealer licence must not cause or allow a proscribed person to –
(a) act as an agent for the business carried on under the licence; or
(b) participate in the management of the business carried on under the licence.
Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 40 penalty units or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or both.
(4)  A proscribed person must not –
(a) act as an agent for a business carried on under a firearms dealer licence; or
(b) participate in the management of the business carried on under a firearms dealer licence.
Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 40 penalty units or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or both.
(5)  It is a defence in proceedings for an offence under subsection (1) or (3) if the defendant establishes that, on the day of the alleged offence, he or she did not know, and could not reasonably have been expected to know, that the person to whom the alleged offence relates was a proscribed person.
(6)  For the purposes of this section, a person is taken to be a proscribed person on a particular day if the person –
(a) has, in the 10-year period immediately preceding that day, had a firearms dealer licence cancelled; or
(b) has, in the 10-year period immediately preceding that day, had a firearms licence cancelled or an application for a licence or permit refused under this Act or in any other jurisdiction on the grounds that –
(i) the person was not considered a fit and proper person to hold or be issued with the licence or permit; or
(ii) the person was not considered a fit and proper person to be trusted with possession of firearms; or
(iii) the holding or issuing of the licence or permit would be contrary to the public interest; or
(c) is subject to an interim restraint order or interim family violence order or a similar interim order in force under a law of another jurisdiction; or
(d) is subject to a restraint order, family violence order or police family violence order or a similar order in force under a law of another jurisdiction; or
(e) is subject, either in this State or elsewhere, to a good behaviour bond relating to an offence of or involving violence; or
(f) is subject to a firearm prohibition order.



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