Victorian Numbered Acts

GRAFFITI PREVENTION ACT 2007 (NO. 59 OF 2007) - NOTES

No. 59 of 2007

Victoria

Graffiti Prevention Act 2007^[†]

No. 59 of 2007

[Assented to 27 November 2007]

^[†]     Minister's second reading speech—

    Legislative Assembly: 20 September 2007

    Legislative Council: 11 October 2007

    The long title for the Bill for this Act was "A Bill for an Act to provide measures for the minimisation of graffiti, to create graffiti-related offences, to provide for the removal of graffiti and for other purposes."

INDEX

Subject	Section
Act
amendment of Transport Act 1983	28
application	4
commencement	2
purpose	1
regulations	27
Advertising	9
Aerosol paint containers	10
See also Graffiti implements
Authorised officers
definition	3
infringement notices	11
prosecutions	10, 23
Authorised persons See Graffiti
Chief Commissioner of Police	17
Compensation	21
Councils See Local councils
Definitions	3, 10
Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981	7, 15
Employers	10
Graffiti
marking	3, 5
marking offensive	6
removal from private property
by authorised persons	19, 20
compensation not payable for damage	21
Councils' powers, duties	18–22
Graffiti implements
definition	3
forfeiture, sale	24–26
possession	8
prescribed graffiti implements
advertising for sale	9
definition	3
possession	7
return of seized items	25
sale of aerosol paint containers	10
Infringement notices	11
Local councils	18–22
Minors	10, 14, 25
Offences and penalties
advertising prescribed graffiti implements for sale	9
infringement notices	11
marking graffiti	5
marking offensive graffiti	6
payment of penalties	23
possession of graffiti implements	7, 8
sale of aerosol paint to minors	10
Subject	Section
Police
powers and duties regarding
infringement notices	11
prescribed graffiti implements	7
return of seized items	25
searches	12–16
Private property	18–22
Regulations	27
Search powers and warrants	12–17
Transport companies	3, 7