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Firearms (Prohibited Firearms) Act 1996

Act No. 15/1996

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Section Page

1.	Purpose	1
2.	Commencement	1
3.	Principal Act	2
4.	Cancellation of authorities.	2
5.	Amendment of section 32	2

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Victoria

No. 15 of 1996

Firearms (Prohibited Firearms) Act

1996†

[Assented to 2 July 1996]

The Parliament of Victoria enacts as follows:

1. Purpose

The purpose of this Act is to amend the Firearms to the control of firearms.

2. Commencement

This Act comes into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Firearms (Prohibited Firearms) Act 1996

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3. Principal Act

No. 6251.

Reprinted to	In this Act, the Firearms Act 1958 is called the
No. 40/1993	Principal Act.
and subsequently amended by Nos 31/1994, 52/1994 and 115/1994.

4. Cancellation of authorities.

Any authority of the Registrar issued under
section 32 of the Principal Act and in force
immediately before the commencement of this Act

is, by force of this section, cancelled.

5. Amendment of section 32

(1) In section 32 of the Principal Act, after sub-

section (4) insert—

"(4AA) In giving an authority under this section, the given by the Minister as to the giving of such authorities.".

(2) For section 32(4B) of the Principal Act

substitute—

"(4B) The Minister, in consultation with the

Treasurer, may approve a scheme of compensation for making payment to any person who surrenders to the Registrar a prohibited firearm that he or she lawfully owned immediately before it became a prohibited firearm.".

(3) In section 32(4C) of the Principal Act after

"payment" insert "made under a scheme".

(4) Sub-section (4D) of section 32 of the Principal

Act is repealed.

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Firearms (Prohibited Firearms) Act 1996

Act No. 15/1996 Notes

NOTES

†

Minister's second reading speech—

Legislative Assembly: 30 May 1996

Legislative Council: 18 June 1996

The long title for the Bill for this Act was "to amend the Firearms Act
1958 and for other purposes."