New Zealand Acts

ARMS ACT 1983 - SECT 4

4 Power to declare weapons to be restricted weapons or specially dangerous airguns

1 For the purposes of this Act, the Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, declare—

a) any weapon (including an airgun) to be a restricted weapon; or

b) any airgun to be a specially dangerous airgun.

2 Any Order in Council made under this section may relate to any weapon or airgun specified by its name or trade name, or to any class of weapons or airguns identified by a description of that class.

3 An order under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

History: Section 4(3): replaced, on 28 October 2021, by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).