Two teenage boys, both on bail, have been charged over the alleged stabbing of a man with a machete at Bondi Beach on Friday night.

Emergency services were called at 9.15pm to a street just behind Bondi Beach Public School, where they found a 54-year-old man with a stab wound to his upper body.

Bondi Beach in the days after the mass shooting in December.© Kate Geraghty

“Police were told the man became involved in an argument with a boy on an e-bike, which then escalated into a physical confrontation,” a NSW Police spokesperson said in a statement.

“The boy allegedly fled the scene and later returned with another boy who was allegedly armed with a knife, before the pair assaulted the man a second time and [left the scene].”

The man was taken to St Vincent’s Hospital in a serious but stable condition.

Two boys, aged 15 and 17, were arrested on Beach Road before they were taken to Surry Hills police station.

On Saturday morning, police said the 15-year-old had been charged with 10 offences: five related to the alleged stabbing, two for drug dealing, two related to stealing and dealing with the proceeds of crime, and one for breach of bail.

The 17-year-old was hit with four charges, including wounding a person with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, assault occasioning actual bodily harm in the company of others, and possession or use of a prohibited weapon without a permit, and breach of bail.

The pair were refused bail and will appear at Parramatta’s bail court on Saturday.

Friday night’s incident was hundreds of metres away from the scene of December’s Bondi Beach shootings, when 15 people were killed in the nation’s worst terror attack.