Victorian Current Acts

MAJOR EVENTS ACT 2009 - SECT 87

    (1)     In this section "offender" means a person who is found guilty of an offence specified in subsection (2).

    (2)     The following offences are offences for which a court may make a ban order—

S. 87(2)(a) amended by No. 16/2013 s. 11.

        (a)     an offence against section 63, 64, 65, 67(2), 67A(1), 67A(2), 68, 69, 85(1), 85(2) or  85(3);

        (b)     an offence against section 62 where the prohibited item was an item specified in paragraph (d), (e), (f) or (g) of the definition of prohibited item ;

        (c)     an offence against section 16, 17, 18, 22, 23,  24 or 30 of the Crimes Act 1958 if committed by the offender in an event venue or event area during an event to which this Part applies;

        (d)     an offence against section 23 of the Summary Offences Act 1966 if committed by the offender in an event venue or event area during an event to which this Part applies.

    (3)     If a court finds a person guilty of an offence specified in subsection (2), the court may make any one, or a combination, of the following orders in respect of the offender—

        (a)     an order banning the offender from entering the event venue and event area where the offence was committed;

        (b)     an order banning the offender from attending—

              (i)     a specified event to which this Part applies at the event venue and event area where the offence was committed; or

              (ii)     two or more specified events to which this Part applies at the event venue and event area where the offence was committed;

        (c)     an order banning the offender from attending a specified category of event to which this Part applies at any event venue where those events take place.

    (4)     A court may impose a ban order on an offender for a period of up to 5 years.

    (5)     A ban order must specify—

        (a)     the event venue and event area in respect of which the ban order is made; and

        (b)     the event to which this Part applies or events to which this Part applies in respect of which the ban order is made; and

        (c)     the period for which the ban order is in force.

    (6)     A person to whom a ban order applies must not enter an event venue or event area in contravention of that order.

Penalty:     60 penalty units.

Note

See section 7(1)(k) of the Sentencing Act 1991 .

    (7)     Nothing in subsection (6) affects the powers of the court that made the order or of the Supreme Court in relation to contempt of court.