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WEAPONS AMENDMENT ACT 2011 No. 37 - SECT 10

10 Amendment of s 51 (Possession of a knife in a public place or a school)

(1) Section 51(1), '20 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment'—

omit, insert—

'40 penalty units or 1 year's imprisonment'.

(2) Section 51(2)(c), before 'exhibiting'—

insert—

'lawfully'.

(3) Section 51—

insert—

'(3A) Also, it is a reasonable excuse for subsection (1), to the extent the subsection relates to a public place, to physically possess a knife for genuine religious purposes.

Example—
A Sikh may possess, in a public place, a knife known as a kirpan to comply with the person's religious faith.

'(3B) However, it is not a reasonable excuse to physically possess a knife in a school for genuine religious purposes.'.

(4) Section 51(3A) to (5)—

renumber as section 51(4) to (7).



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