Weapons and Other Harmful Items – Banning, Searching and Seizing

Banning, Searching for and Seizing Harmful Items Guidelines

These Guidelines are intended to assist schools to ban, search for and seize certain prescribed harmful items in accordance with the provisions of the Education and Training Reform Act 2006 (Vic) and Education and Training Reform (School Safety) Regulations 2011 (Vic). They contain the following chapters:

• Harmful items that apply to the banning, searching and seizing powers
• Declaration of harmful items
• Powers to search for and seize harmful items
• Action to be taken after a search and seizure
• Authorisation of Teacher