Weapons Act 1990

This section applies if a licensee is an individual.

However, this section applies to a licensee only if, when the licensee is required to apply for the renewal of a licence, the licensee—

is temporarily absent from Australia for a genuine occupational reason; or

is temporarily a patient in a hospital.

Also, this section applies despite section 18(2)(b)(i).

If the licensee authorises an attorney under a power of attorney to make the application for the licensee, the attorney may make the application for renewal of the licensee’s licence for the licensee.

However, the attorney may make the application—

only on a single occasion; and

only if the attorney gives the authorised officer a statutory declaration stating that the attorney is not entitled to any fee or other benefit for making the application.

The attorney must make the application by—

personally giving to a police officer at a police station or police establishment a renewal application completed and signed by the licensee; and

producing to the police officer the information mentioned in section 18AB (required information).