Section 32Part 6 — Power of search and to obtain information
Power of constable to require production of Firearm User’s (Restricted) Licence
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Any constable who sees any person carrying any firearm in any public place may require such person to produce to that constable that person’s Firearm User’s (Restricted) Licence in relation to the firearm and, if such place is within any area to which section 17 applies, to produce that person’s Firearm User’s (Special) Permit in relation to the firearm.
Whoever, on being required so to do, fails to produce either of the documents referred to in subsection (1) or to permit the constable to inspect such documents and to examine the firearm to which such documents relate for the purpose of verifying the particulars in such documents commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of ten thousand dollars and to imprisonment for twelve months.
Cross References
- Section 17 of Firearms Act
area to which section 17 applies