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New South Wales. 1996 ‘Unregistered Firearms.’ Firearms Act 1996 No 46 (Act Current to 24 November 2015); Section 36 (Part 3). Sydney: New South Wales Government. 28 June

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36. Unregistered Firearms

(1) A person must not supply, acquire, possess or use a firearm that is not registered.

Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 14 years if the firearm concerned is a pistol or prohibited firearm, or imprisonment for 5 years in any other case.

Maximum penalty on conviction on indictment: imprisonment for 10 years (if it is established beyond reasonable doubt that the firearm concerned was a prohibited firearm or a pistol), or imprisonment for 5 years in any other case.

(2) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence under this section to prove that the defendant:
(a) did not know, or could not reasonably be expected to have known, that the firearm concerned was unregistered, and
(b) was not the owner of the firearm at the time of the alleged offence.

(3) A licensed firearms dealer does not commit an offence under this section of acquiring or possessing an unregistered firearm if an application for registration of the firearm is made within 24 hours after acquiring the firearm…

ID: Q11979

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