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.
Paul de Jersey
Administrator
By His Excellency’s Command
Peter Dutton
Minister for Immigration and Border Protection
Contents
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Schedules
Schedule 1—Amendments
Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956
This is the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Amendment (Firearms and Firearm Magazines) Regulation 2015.
(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.
Commencement information | ||
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
1. The whole of this instrument | The day after this instrument is registered. | 7 August 2015 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.
This instrument is made under the Customs Act 1901.
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
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:
| Firearm, other than: (a) a firearm to which item 1, 2, 3, 6, 9 or 14A applies; or (b) a lever action shot gun fitted with a firearm magazine having a capacity of more than 5 rounds. |
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3 Part 2 of Schedule 6 (cell at table item 17, column 2)
Repeal the cell, substitute:
| Firearm magazine, other than: (a) a firearm magazine to which item 15, 16 or 16A applies; or (b) a firearm magazine, having a capacity of more than 5 rounds, for lever action shot guns; whether or not attached to a firearm. |
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