South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts15A—Possession of body armour
(1) A person who,
without the approval in writing of the Commissioner—
(a)
manufactures, sells, distributes, supplies or otherwise deals in, body armour;
or
(b) has
possession of, or uses, body armour,
is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: $10 000 or imprisonment for 2 years.
(1a) The Commissioner
may, subject to such conditions and limitations as the Commissioner thinks
fit, give an approval to a person or a class of persons for the purposes of
subsection (1) and may revoke an approval or revoke or vary the
conditions or limitations under which an approval operates.
(1b) The giving or a
variation or revocation of an approval that applies to a class of persons must
be notified in the Gazette.
(2) In this
section—
"body armour" means a protective jacket, vest or other article of apparel
designed to resist the penetration of a projectile discharged from a firearm.