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FIREARMS ACT 1973 - SECT 23AG

23AG .         Firearms technology

        (1)         Any of the following is firearms technology

            (a)         a thing that is programmed, configured or otherwise enabled —

                  (i)         to carry out a step in the manufacture or repair of a firearm, major firearm part, prohibited firearm accessory or ammunition; or

                  (ii)         without limiting subparagraph (i), to change an object into a component of a firearm, major firearm part, prohibited firearm accessory or ammunition;

            (b)         any type of digital or electronic reproduction of a technical drawing of the design of a firearm, major firearm part, prohibited firearm accessory or ammunition;

            (c)         a plan, drawing, instruction, template or computer program, in digital or electronic form, for the manufacture or repair of a firearm, major firearm part, prohibited firearm accessory or ammunition;

            (d)         a hard copy of a digital or electronic thing referred to in paragraph (b) or (c).

        (2)         The reference in subsection (1)(a) to a thing is a reference to any machinery, equipment, object or device, including the following —

            (a)         a 3D printer or other similar additive manufacturing technology;

            (b)         a moulding device;

            (c)         a milling device;

            (d)         a remote controlled device (for example, a drone);

            (e)         an electronic firing mechanism;

            (f)         railgun technology;

            (g)         any other prescribed thing.

        [Section 23AG inserted: No. 13 of 2022 s. 43.]



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