NRS-21663 | Record of pistol licenses issued [Kootingal Police Station]

Full description

This volume was used to record Pistol Licenses issued by the Kootingal Police Station under the Pistol License Act, 1927 (Act No.10, 1927).

The Act states under section 5 that ''Applications for licenses... or the renewal of such licenses, shall be made to the officer of police in charge of the police station nearest to the place where the applicant usually resides.'' (1) Furthermore, section 9 states that ''A record of all licenses issued under this Act at any police station shall be kept there and shall be open for inspection at all reasonable times upon payment of the fee (if any) prescribed.'' (2)

The volume records the following: the name and address (suburb) of the licensee; the description, maker and number of the pistol; the date and number of the license issued; any subsequent renewals of the license issued. There are also notes regarding the relocation of licensees and which Police Station recorded their renewed licenses thereafter.

This volume also contains a list recording the date of inspections to the volume and the name of the inspecting person. Inspections of the volume continued after the Act was repealed and are recorded up until 1975.

Endnotes
1. Pistol License Act, 1927 (Act No.10, 1927).
2. ibid.