Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00211:schedule:6:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00211
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 6 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 193102–195731

Schedule 6—Requirements for the importation of firearms, firearm accessories, firearm parts, firearms magazines, ammunition, components of ammunition and imitations
(regulation 4F)

Part 1—Tests
  A reference in column 3 of Part 2 of this Schedule to compliance with a test means compliance in the following manner:

1.  Official purposes test
 1.1 The importation of an article complies with the official purposes test if, at or before importation, the Minister gives written permission under this item for the importation of the article.
 1.2 The Minister may give written permission for the importation of the article only if the Minister is satisfied that:
 (a) the article is to be imported for the purposes of:
 (i) the government of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; or
 (ii) export under a contract to a government of a foreign country, in compliance with the Act (including any regulations or other instruments made under the Act); and
 (b) the ownership arrangements for the article are, or will be, in accordance with subitem 1.4; and
 (c) the importer holds a licence or authorisation to possess the article for the importer's intended use in accordance with the law of the State or Territory in which the article is to be used.
 1.3 For paragraph 1.2(a), examples of an article the importation of which is for the purposes of the government of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory are:
 (a) an article to be supplied to the government under a contract in force when the article is to be imported; and
 (aa) an article that is to be imported by a person for the purposes of supplying the article to another person to enable that other person to supply the article to the government under a contract in force when the article is to be imported; and
 (b) an article to be shown to the government to demonstrate its uses; and
 (ba) an article that is to be imported by a person for the purposes of enabling another person to show or demonstrate the article (including as part of another article) to the government:
 (i) under a contract or proposed contract; or
 (ii) as part of a tender process; and
 (c) an article that the government proposes to inspect, test or evaluate; and
 (d) an article that the government proposes to use for training; and
 (e) an article that has been given or donated to the government; and
 (f) an article that is to be consumed or destroyed in the course of testing related to a contract with the government of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory.
 1.4 For paragraph 1.2(b), the ownership arrangements for an article are set out in the following table:
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Item  Article