Weapons Prohibition Regulation 2017

The Commissioner may, on application by a person on behalf of a public museum containing a collection of prohibited weapons, issue the person with a prohibited weapons—public museum permit that authorises the possession of the prohibited weapons to which the permit relates.

The authority conferred by a prohibited weapons—public museum permit authorises—

the holder of the permit, and

any other person who—

is employed or engaged by the public museum, or who is otherwise involved in the operation of the public museum, and

is specified in the permit, and

has not in the previous 10 years been convicted of an offence referred to in clause 5 (1),

The Commissioner must not issue a prohibited weapons—public museum permit unless satisfied that—

the public museum’s prohibited weapons collection has a genuine commemorative, historical, thematic or financial value, and

a police officer has inspected (in accordance with such arrangements as are agreed on by the applicant and the Commissioner) the public museum, the prohibited weapons in the collection and the facilities for the storing and safe keeping of those weapons, and has approved of those facilities.

A prohibited weapons—public museum permit is subject to the following conditions—

any prohibited weapon to which the permit relates must be maintained in a safe condition,

any proposed display of any prohibited weapon that is to take place away from the public museum must be approved and the display must be conducted in the approved manner.