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Parliament of Victoria · Legislative Assembly · 19 November 2025 · Crime and safety

Control of Weapons Amendment (Establishing Jack’s Law, Use of Electronic Metal Detection Devices) Bill 2025: introduction

Voting yes supported introducing the Control of Weapons Amendment (Establishing Jack's Law, Use of Electronic Metal Detection Devices) Bill 2025, which would give police greater powers to use electronic metal detection devices to search persons for weapons.

Defeated27 yes 47 no

The question put

That I introduce a bill for an act to amend the Control of Weapons Act 1990 to provide greater powers for police officers to use electronic metal detection devices to search persons for weapons and for other purposes.

How each party voted

Members who didn't vote (absent, paired or in the chair) aren't listed. A party votes as one when at least three quarters of its members vote together.

Source: Hansard, Parliament of Victoria. The summary is AI-written from the question and the bill's official summary, then checked; the record above is the authority.