1Nudity (Prescribed Areas) Act 1983

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Nudity (Prescribed Areas) Act 1983

No. 9942 of 1983

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table of provisions

Section Page

1 Short title and commencement 1

2 Prescription of area by notice 1

3 Nakedness in a prescribed area 2

ENDNOTES 3

1. General Information 3

2. Table of Amendments 4

3. Explanatory Details 5

Version No. 003

Nudity (Prescribed Areas) Act 1983

No. 9942 of 1983

Version as at
4 October 2012

An Act to permit nudity in certain public places.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Victoria in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows (that is to say):

1 Short title and commencement

(1) This Act may be cited as the Nudity (Prescribed Areas) Act 1983.

(2) This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

2 Prescription of area by notice

(1) The Minister by notice published in the Government Gazette and after consultation with the council of the municipality within the municipal district of which the area proposed to be prescribed is situated—

(a) may prescribed an area to be an area to which this Act applies; and

(b) may in respect of an area prescribed under paragraph (a) prescribe times during which that area is to be an area to which this Act applies.

(2) The Minister may in a like manner revoke or amend a notice under subsection (1).

(3) The Minister shall within seven days of the publishing of—

(a) a notice under subsection (1); or

(b) the revocation or amendment of a notice under subsection (1)—

cause a copy of the notice, revocation or amendment to be published in a newspaper circulating generally throughout Victoria.

(4) A failure to comply with subsection (3) shall not affect the validity of the notice, revocation or amendment.

3 Nakedness in a prescribed area