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Serial 3
Weapons
Control Amendment Bill 2020
Ms
Manison
A Bill for an Act to amend the Weapons Control Act 2001
NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA
WEAPONS CONTROL AMENDMENT ACT 2020
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Act No. [ ] of 2020
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Table of provisions
3A Meaning
of body armour
NORTHERN
TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA
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Act No. [ ] of 2020
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An Act to amend the Weapons Control Act 2001
[Assented to [ ] 2020]
[Introduced [ ] 2020]
The Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory enacts as follows:
This Act may be cited as the Weapons Control Amendment Act 2020.
This Act commences on the day after the day on which the Administrator's assent to this Act is declared.
This Act amends the Weapons Control Act 2001.
4 Section 3 amended (Definitions)
Section 3, definition body armour
omit, insert
body armour, see section 3A.
5 Section 3A inserted (Meaning of body armour)
After section 3
insert
(1) Body armour means an article that is designed:
(a) for anti-ballistic or anti-fragmentation purposes; and
(b) to be worn on, or cover, the human body.
(2) However, body armour does not include the following articles:
(a) a helmet;
(b) an anti-ballistic or anti-fragmentation article designed for sight or hearing protection;
(c) a vest or plate carrier designed to hold anti-ballistic or anti-fragmentation protection but without the anti-ballistic or anti-fragmentation protection included in the vest or plate carrier.
(3) In this section:
anti-ballistic means resistant to the penetration of a projectile discharged from a firearm.
anti-fragmentation means resistant to the penetration of material discharged when an explosive device is detonated.
This Act is repealed on the day after it commences.
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