Amnesty
342 Amnesty
If a person surrenders a firearm or related thing (the surrendered thing) by approved surrender, action cannot be taken against the person for an offence under Part 5 in respect of the possession of the surrendered thing by the person before it was surrendered.
Subsection (1) does not affect the person’s liability for any other offence involving the surrendered thing that is committed by the person under this Act or another written law before it was surrendered.
A person does not commit an offence under Part 5 by giving possession of a firearm or related thing to a police officer at a police station or to an approved person at an approved location when surrendering the firearm or related thing to the Commissioner by approved surrender.
A police officer at a police station or an approved person at an approved location does not commit an offence under Part 5 by taking possession of a firearm or related thing when the firearm or related thing is surrendered to the Commissioner by approved surrender.
A person’s possession of a firearm or related thing at an approved location in the person’s capacity as an approved person for the approved location is taken to be authorised by a licence.
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