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CRIMINAL LAW CONSOLIDATION ACT 1935 - SECT 83M

83M—Interpretation

        (1)         In this Part—

"explosive device" means (subject to subsection (2)(a)) any apparatus, machine, implement or materials used or apparently intended to be used or adapted for causing or aiding in causing any explosion in, or with, any explosive substance (and includes any part of any such apparatus, machine or implement);

"explosive substance" means (subject to subsection (2)(b))—

            (a)         any substance used or manufactured with a view to produce a practical effect by explosion or a pyrotechnic effect; and

            (b)         a substance, or substance of a kind, prescribed by the regulations;

"public place" has the same meaning as in the Summary Offences Act 1953 .

        (2)         The Attorney-General may, by notice in the Gazette—

            (a)         declare that—

                  (i)         any specified apparatus, machine, implement or materials or kind of apparatus, machine, implement or materials; or

                  (ii)         any apparatus, machine, implement or materials used, possessed, supplied or manufactured in specified circumstances,

is exempted from the definition of "explosive device" in subsection (1) (and may, by subsequent notice in the Gazette, vary or revoke any such declaration); or

            (b)         declare that—

                  (i)         a specified substance or kind of substance; or

                  (ii)         a substance used, possessed, supplied or manufactured in specified circumstances,

is exempted from the definition of "explosive substance" in subsection (1) (and may, by subsequent notice in the Gazette, vary or revoke any such declaration).



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