SUMMARY OFFENCES ACT 1953 - SECT 21B

SUMMARY OFFENCES ACT 1953 - SECT 21B

21B—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)         uses or has possession of body armour,

is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: $10 000 or imprisonment for 2 years.

        (2)         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.

        (3)         The giving or a variation or revocation of an approval that applies to a class of persons must be notified in the Gazette.