by Justin9mm » 01 Mar 2018, 2:32 pm
EDIT: Disregard my post unless you are in Victoria.. Sorry Coma75, I thought you were in VIC for some reason!
Whatever the expiry date is on your provisional license card is the date it officially started exactly 6 months prior to that.
You can send off your first PTA with your full license application a month beforehand, there's not an exact date when they won't accept it but I know it's definitely okay to submit at least 4 weeks before. They will process it and wait until your provisional period ends and then issue the full license, once you pay for that and get your photo, then they should issue the Permit so you should get it not long after your license comes out. Getting a PTA to them early obviously allows you to not have to wait the 28 day cooling off period after you get your full license.
Also a couple of facts LRD might not tell you.. You have 30 days to purchase the firearm once the PTA is issued.. In the example you order a new firearm from a dealer on order from the manufacturer overseas and you've been told an arrival date so you put your PTA application in which gets issued but the firearm gets delayed, you can extend a PTA up to 2 times. BUT.. If it has been 90 days or more since the original PTA was issued, then you need to complete a whole new PTA application.
I know this because it has currently happened to me, I've been waiting since October for a pistol that was meant to come, had extended my PTA twice and now on my second PTA application for it, all because the manufacturer's shipment to Australia has had huge unexpected delays. Out of the dealer's hands and I quickly find out Firearm importation laws are a joke!
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Justin9mm on 02 Mar 2018, 11:16 am, edited 1 time in total.