Victorian Current Acts

FIREARMS ACT 1996 - SECT 33A

    (1)     If the Chief Commissioner is proposing not to issue a licence under this Part for any reason other than that set out in subsection (2), the Chief Commissioner must, before deciding not to issue the licence, serve on the applicant a notice—

        (a)     specifying the reason why the Chief Commissioner is proposing not to issue the licence; and

        (b)     inviting the applicant to make a written submission in accordance with subsection (3).

    (2)     If the Chief Commissioner is proposing not to issue a licence under this Part because he or she is satisfied that the applicant, a close associate of the applicant or, if the applicant is a body corporate, the nominated person or an officer of the body corporate, is a prohibited person, the Chief Commissioner must serve on—

        (a)     the applicant; and

        (b)     any of the persons referred to in this subsection who the Chief Commissioner is satisfied is a prohibited person—

a notice specifying the reason why the licence is not to be issued.

S. 33A(2A) inserted by No. 53/2016 s. 97.

    (2A)     If an applicant is disqualified from holding a licence under section 19 of the National Domestic Violence Order Scheme Act 2016 , the Chief Commissioner must serve on the applicant a notice specifying the reason why the Chief Commissioner refuses to issue the licence.

    (3)     An applicant who has been served with a notice under subsection (1) may, within 28 days after the day on which the applicant is served with the notice, make a submission to the Chief Commissioner concerning any reason that is specified in the notice.

S. 33B inserted by No. 50/2007 s. 13.