Weapons Amendment Regulations (No. 4) 2000 (WA)

28 July 2000] GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 4027

PE303*

Weapons Act 1999

Weapons Amendment Regulations (No. 4) 2000

Made by the Administrator in Executive Council.

1.             Citation

These regulations may be cited as the Weapons Amendment
Regulations (No. 4) 2000.

2.             Regulation 10 inserted

After regulation 9 of the Weapons Regulations 1999* the following regulation is inserted —

“

10.           Exception for prison officers and certain contract workers

A person does not commit an offence under section 6, 7
or 8 of the Act only because of something done by the
person in the performance of the person’s functions
as —

(a)	a prison officer as defined in the Prisons Act 1981; or
(b)	a person authorised to exercise a power set out in Division 1, 2 or 3 of Schedule 2 to the Court Security and Custodial Services Act 1999 or a power set out in Schedule 3 to that Act.

”.

[* Published in Gazette 31 August 1999, pp. 4225-32.

For amendments to 26 June 2000 see Gazette 29 February,

10 March and 9 June 2000.]

By Command of the Administrator,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.