New Zealand Acts

ARMS ACT 1983 - SECT 18C

18C Export of specified items not corresponding with sample or otherwise approved for importation

1 This section applies if—

a) a specified item is brought into New Zealand under a permit issued for the purposes of section 16(1) ; and

b) the specified item—

i) does not correspond with a sample produced to a member of the Police as required by the description of the specified item in the permit; or

ii) is not otherwise approved for importation into New Zealand.

2 If this subsection applies, the person who brought the specified item into New Zealand or caused it to be brought or sent into New Zealand must, within 12 months after being informed in writing by a member of the Police that the specified item does not correspond with the sample or is not otherwise approved for importation into New Zealand, export or cause to be exported from New Zealand—

a) the specified item; and

b) the sample.

3 If a specified item or sample to which subsection (2) relates is not exported as required by that subsection, the specified item or sample must be disposed of or dealt with in the manner that the Commissioner directs.

4 In this section,
"specified item" means any firearm, pistol, prohibited item, restricted airgun, restricted weapon, blank-firing gun, pistol carbine conversion kit, air pistol carbine conversion kit, or non-prohibited ammunition.

History: Section 18C: inserted, on 25 June 2020, by section 31 of the Arms Legislation Act 2020 (2020 No 23).