Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to this Act, a person must not possess or use an unsafe firearm.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months.
(2) The holder of a firearms armourer licence or firearms armourer permit may have an unsafe firearm in his or her possession in the ordinary course of his or her business or for the purpose of repairing it.
(3) The holder of a firearms collector licence, antique firearms collector licence, firearms instructor licence or firearms museum licence may have an unsafe firearm in his or her possession.
(4) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1) for the defendant to prove that he or she did not know and could not reasonably have known that the firearm was unsafe.