22   Arms fair permit

(1)  The Commissioner may, on application by a person who proposes to conduct an arms fair that involves displaying, buying or selling prohibited weapons, issue a prohibited weapons—arms fair permit that:

(a)  authorises the person to use the premises specified in the permit (the authorised premises) for the purposes of conducting and supervising the arms fair, and

(b)  authorises any person who:

(i)  is an employee of the permit holder, and

(ii)  is specified in the permit, and

(iii)  has not been convicted of an offence referred to in clause 5,

      to assist the permit holder in the conducting and supervising of the arms fair, and

(c)  authorises a holder of a prohibited weapons—weapons dealer permit or a prohibited weapons—theatrical weapons armourer permit to display, buy and sell prohibited weapons, to which the holder’s permit relates, for the purpose of participating in the arms fair.

(2)  The Commissioner must not issue a prohibited weapons—arms fair permit unless the Commissioner is satisfied that:

(a)  the applicant is the holder of a weapons dealer permit or a theatrical weapons armourer permit, and

(b)  having regard to the following considerations, the premises nominated by the applicant are suitable to be used for an arms fair:

(i)  the nature of the activities proposed to be conducted on the premises,

(ii)  the types of prohibited weapons involved,

(iii)  whether adequate provision has been made for the safe keeping of the prohibited weapons,

(iv)  the security of the premises against unauthorised entry.

(3)  A prohibited weapons—arms fair permit is subject to the following conditions:

(a)  the permit holder is responsible for the conduct of all persons authorised to display and trade prohibited weapons at the authorised premises,

(b)  the permit holder must ensure that each participant is provided with a code of conduct specifying participants’ responsibilities in relation to the supervision and security of the participant’s allocated space and stock at the authorised premises,

(c)  the permit holder must ensure that sufficient security staff and facilities are provided at the authorised premises, and that a satisfactory security program is established and maintained, to enable the monitoring of the conduct of participants and the public and to ensure the security and safe keeping of the prohibited weapons,

(d)  the permit holder must ensure that sufficient security (involving at least one person who holds a licence that authorises the person to carry out a security activity referred to in section 4 (1) (c) of the Security Industry Act 1997 and who has phone or radio contact (or both) to a base or to local police (or both)) is provided to ensure the security of any prohibited weapons retained at the authorised premises outside of operating hours,

(e)  the permit holder must ensure that any person leaving the authorised premises with a prohibited weapon is requested to provide proof of their purchase by security staff (or other staff so authorised by the permit holder) stationed at an exit or exits to the authorised premises,

(f)  the permit holder must ensure that all unsupervised exits to the authorised premises are secured,

(g)  the permit holder must ensure that all prohibited weapons are contained in locked display cases or are secured to a display table in such a manner as would reasonably prevent their removal otherwise than by persons authorised to remove them.

(4)  The prohibited weapons—weapons dealer permit or prohibited weapons—theatrical weapons armourer permit of a person who participates in the arms fair is subject to the following conditions:

(a)  the permit holder must comply with the code of conduct provided to participants in the arms fair, and with any reasonable direction and instruction given by the organiser of the arms fair or by any authorised employee of the organiser,

(b)  the permit holder must exercise and maintain close supervision over any prohibited weapon to which the permit relates and any projectile designed to be fired from any such weapon.