Western Australian Current Regulations Western Australian Current Regulations (1) This regulation
applies when a restraining order which requires the person bound by the order
to give up possession of a firearm item or a firearms authorisation is served
on a restrained person who is in possession of a firearm item or a firearms
authorisation.
(2) If the order is
personally or orally served on the restrained person by a police officer and
at the time the order is served the restrained person is physically in
possession of the firearm item or firearms authorisation the restrained person
must immediately give the firearm item or firearms authorisation to the police
officer.
(3) Subject to
subregulation (5), if the order is personally or orally served on the
restrained person by a police officer and at the time the order is served the
firearm item or firearms authorisation is at a place to which the police
officer can reasonably accompany the person, the restrained person
must —
(a)
immediately go with the police officer to that place; and
(b) once
there, immediately give the firearm item or firearms authorisation to the
police officer.
(4) Subject to
subregulation (5), in any other case the restrained person must give the
firearm item or firearms authorisation to the police officer in charge of the
police station nearest to where the firearm item or firearms authorisation is
located as soon as is reasonably practicable and in any event within
24 hours of the order being served.
(5) If a firearm item
in respect of which a restrained person holds a firearms authorisation is in
the actual physical possession of a co‑licensee of that firearm item,
the restrained person —
(a) must
comply with subregulation (3) or (4), as the case requires, in respect of
the firearms authorisation; but
(b) need
not comply with subregulation (3) or (4), as the case requires, in
respect of that firearm item.
[Regulation 4 amended: SL 2022/189
r. 9.]