New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WEAPONS PROHIBITION REGULATION 2017 - REG 19

19 Production permit

(1) The Commissioner may, on application by a person on behalf of a film, television or theatrical production that will involve prohibited weapons, issue the person with a prohibited weapons--production permit that authorises the possession and use of prohibited weapons for the purposes of the production specified in the permit.

(2) A prohibited weapons--production permit authorises the permit holder to possess and use the prohibited weapons to which the permit relates, but only in connection with the production concerned.

(3) The authority conferred by a prohibited weapons--production permit also authorises any other person directly involved in the production who--

(a) has been nominated by the permit holder, and

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

(c) is authorised by the Commissioner in writing or in such other manner as may be approved,

to possess and use a prohibited weapon to which the permit relates for the purposes of the production concerned, but only while under the direct supervision of the permit holder.

(4) The requirements referred to in subclause (3) (a)-(c) do not apply if the permit relates only to a prohibited weapon referred to in clause 3 (1) of Schedule 1 to the Act.

(5) The Commissioner must not issue a prohibited weapons--production permit unless the Commissioner is satisfied that--

(a) the production concerned requires the possession or use of the prohibited weapons for which the permit is sought, and

(b) the applicant has adequate training in relation to the security and safe handling of the prohibited weapons, and

(c) the applicant's main duty in connection with the production is that of controlling, and being responsible for the security and safe handling of, the prohibited weapons, and

(d) adequate security will be maintained over the prohibited weapons at all times, and

(e) the permit holder will supervise the possession and use of the prohibited weapons by those persons authorised under subclause (3).

(6) The holder of a prohibited weapons--production permit must--

(a) keep in the approved form a register in which particulars of the following matters are kept--

(i) the type, and number, of prohibited weapons authorised under the permit,

(ii) the name of each person authorised to possess and use any such weapon, and the periods for which each such person had possession or use of the weapon,

(iii) the periods for which any such weapon was removed from safe storage, and

(b) ensure that the register is kept in a place of safe keeping (not being a place in which any prohibited weapons are kept), and

(c) ensure that each entry that is made in the register is maintained for not less than 3 years after it is made, and

(d) if requested to do so by a police officer at any time, immediately produce the register to the police officer and allow the police officer to inspect, and make copies of any entry contained in, the register.

: Maximum penalty--50 penalty units.

(7) A prohibited weapons--production permit is subject to the condition that all prohibited weapons to which the permit relates (other than a prohibited weapon referred to in clause 1A (1) of Schedule 1 to the Act) must be maintained in a safe working condition.