New Zealand Acts

ARMS ACT 1983 - SECT 1A

1A Purposes of this Act

1 The purposes of this Act are to—

a) promote the safe possession and use of firearms and other weapons; and

b) impose controls on the possession and use of firearms and other weapons.

2 The regulatory regime established by this Act to achieve those purposes reflects the following principles:

a) that the possession and use of arms is a privilege; and

b) that persons authorised to import, manufacture, supply, sell, possess, or use arms have a responsibility to act in the interests of personal and public safety.

History: Section 1A: inserted, on 25 June 2020, by section 5 of the Arms Legislation Act 2020 (2020 No 23).