Customs (Prohibited Imports) Amendment (Firearms and Firearm Magazines) Regulation 2015

Select Legislative Instrument No. 133, 2015

I, the Honourable Paul de Jersey AC QC, Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 06 August 2015

Paul de Jersey

Administrator

By His Excellency’s Command

Peter Dutton

Minister for Immigration and Border Protection

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956

1  Name

  This is the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Amendment (Firearms and Firearm Magazines) Regulation 2015.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Customs Act 1901.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956

1  Part 2 of Schedule 6 (table item 2, column 2, paragraph (g))

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

(g) a lever action shot gun:

(i) without a firearm magazine; or

(ii) fitted with a firearm magazine having a capacity of no more than 5 rounds;

2  Part 2 of Schedule 6 (cell at table item 12, column 2)

Repeal the cell, substitute:

3  Part 2 of Schedule 6 (cell at table item 17, column 2)

Repeal the cell, substitute: