Bills
Firearms and Control of Weapons (Machetes) Amendment Bill 2024
Introduction and first reading
Anthony CARBINES (Ivanhoe – Minister for Police, Minister for Crime Prevention, Minister for Racing) (09:33): I move:
That I introduce a bill for an act to amend the Firearms Act 1996 to further provide for the service of firearm prohibition orders and for related and minor matters, to amend the Control of Weapons Act 1990 to clarify that a machete is a type of knife and for other purposes.
Motion agreed to.
James NEWBURY (Brighton) (09:34): I seek a brief explanation of the bill.
Anthony CARBINES (Ivanhoe – Minister for Police, Minister for Crime Prevention, Minister for Racing) (09:34): The brief explanation is the bill will amend the Firearms Act 1996 to further provide for the service of firearm prohibition orders, FPOs, and related and minor matters; provide additional powers for Victoria Police to serve an FPO on an individual who is avoiding service, including powers to direct and detain an individual to serve an FPO and to apply to a magistrate for a warrant to search a premises for an individual to serve an FPO. Because an FPO can be issued against a child aged 14 years or more, the additional service powers may only be exercised against a child in exceptional circumstances. Further, the bill will amend the Control of Weapons Act 1990 to clarify that a machete is a knife and therefore a controlled weapon for the purposes of that act.
Read first time.
Ordered to be read second time tomorrow.