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New Zealand. 2021 ‘Section 5.’ Arms Act 1983: September 2021 Reprint; Section 5. Wellington: New Zealand. 26 September

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5 Dealers to be licensed

(1) A person other than a body corporate must not carry on any of the following activities in relation to a class of arms items without a dealer's licence that authorises the person to carry on the activity in relation to that class of arms items:
(a) the business of selling, hiring, lending, or otherwise supplying a class of arms items:
(b) possessing, for the purposes of an auction, a class of arms items:
(c) the business of repairing or modifying a class of arms items:
(d) displaying, as the director or curator of a bona fide museum, a class of arms items:
(e) the business of manufacturing for sale, hire, lending, or other supply a class of arms items:
(f) manufacturing (for the purposes of permitted supply (as defined in section 4A(3))) prohibited parts and using prohibited items to test and demonstrate those prohibited parts.

(2) A body corporate must not carry on any of the activities specified in subsection (1) in relation to a class of arms items unless a senior manager of the body corporate has a dealer's licence authorising the senior manager to carry on the activities in relation to the class of arms items on behalf of the body corporate.

(3) Despite subsections (1) and (2), a dealer's licence is not required for the following activities:
(a) commercial hunting guide services by a firearms licence holder who during the provision of those services supplies no more than 6 firearms to 1 or more clients:
(b) the selling, hiring, lending, or supplying of firearms by a member of a shooting club, if the member—
(i) sells, hires, lends, or supplies firearms to a club member, or on club premises, with the approval of the management committee of the club or a majority vote of club members; and
(ii) the revenue from the sale, hire, lending, or supply of the firearms is used for the benefit of the club.

(4) A dealer's licence may not be issued for the carrying on of any of the activities specified in subsection (1) in relation to—
(a) anti-personnel mines; or
(b) cluster munitions.

(5) A person commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or to a fine not exceeding $10,000, if the person, without reasonable excuse, contravenes this section

[As amended by Section 12 of the Arms Legislation Act (2020)]

ID: Q14759

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