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WEAPONS CONTROL AMENDMENT BILL 2005
Serial 29
Weapons Control Amendment
Bill 2005
Mr
Henderson
AN ACT
to
amend the Weapons Control Act
NORTHERN TERRITORY OF
AUSTRALIA
WEAPONS CONTROL AMENDMENT ACT
2005
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Act No. [ ] of 2005
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TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section
NORTHERN TERRITORY
OF AUSTRALIA
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Act No. [ ] of 2005
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AN ACT
[Assented to 2005]
[Second reading 2005]
The Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory enacts
as follows:
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Weapons Control Amendment
Act 2005.
Commencement
This Act comes into operation on the date fixed by the
Administrator by notice in the Gazette.
Principal Act amended
This Act amends the Weapons Control
Act.
Amendment of section 3 (Definitions)
Section 3 –
insert (in alphabetical order)
"school" has the same meaning as in the Education
Act.
Amendment of section 7 (Controlled weapons)
Section 7(1), after "public place" –
insert
or school
New
sections 11A and 11B
After section 11 in Part 2 –
insert
11A. Supply
of crossbow or other controlled weapon to person under 18 years of
age
A person must not supply any of the following weapons to a
person who is under 18 years of age:
(a) a crossbow that is a controlled weapon;
(b) any other controlled weapon prescribed by regulation
for this section.
Penalty: If the offender is a natural person – 200
penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months.
If the offender is a body corporate – 1 000
penalty units.
11B. Interstate
sale of crossbow or other controlled weapon
(1) A person (the "receiver") must not receive into the
Territory a prescribed weapon from another person (the "sender") in a place
within Australia if the receiver knows (or would be reasonably expected to know)
the sender would be, because of sending the weapon or being in possession of it
in the place from which it is sent, guilty of an offence under any law in force
in the place.
Penalty: If the person is a natural person – 200
penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months.
If the offender is a body corporate – 1 000
penalty units.
(2) It is a defence to a prosecution under subsection (1)
if the defendant proves the weapon was sent to the defendant without the
defendant's knowledge or approval.
(3) A person (the "procurer") must not direct or request
another person (the "sender"), whether the sender is within or outside the
Territory when the request is made, to send a prescribed weapon to a person in
the Territory from a place within Australia if the procurer knows (or would be
reasonably expected to know) the sender would be, because of sending the weapon
or being in possession of it at the place from which it is sent, guilty of an
offence under any law in force in the place.
Penalty: If the person is a natural person – 200
penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months.
If the offender is a body corporate – 1 000
penalty units.
(4) A person is taken to have made a request under
subsection (3) if the person accepts an offer made by another person within or
outside the Territory to forward the weapon by mail to an address within the
Territory.
(5) A person (the "sender") must not send out of the
Territory a prescribed weapon to another person (the "receiver") in a place
within Australia if the sender knows (or would be reasonably expected to know)
the receiver would be, because of receiving the weapon or being in possession of
it at the place to which it is sent, guilty of an offence under any law in force
in the place.
Penalty: If the offender is a natural person – 200
penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months.
If the offender is a body corporate – 1 000
penalty units.
(6) In this section –
"prescribed weapon" means –
(a) a crossbow that is a controlled weapon; or
(b) any other controlled weapon prescribed by regulation
for this section; or
(c) a part of a weapon referred to in paragraph (a) or
(b);
"send" includes cause to be delivered.
Amendment of section 19 (Search without
warrant)
Section 19(1), after "public place"
–
insert
or school
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