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Queensland
POLICE POWERS AND
RESPONSIBILITIES
AMENDMENT BILL 1998
Queensland
POLICE POWERS AND
RESPONSIBILITIES AMENDMENT BILL
1998
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section Page
1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 Act amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3 Amendment of s 35 (Arrest without warrant) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1998
A BILL
FOR
An Act to amend the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 1997
s1 4 s3
Police Powers and Responsibilities Amendment
The Parliament of Queensland enacts-- 1
title 2
Short
1. This Act may be cited as the Police Powers and Responsibilities 3
Amendment Act 1998. 4
amended 5
Act
2. This Act amends the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 1997. 6
of s 35 (Arrest without warrant) 7
Amendment
3. Section 35-- 8
insert-- 9
`(4) Despite subsection (3), but subject to the Juvenile Justice Act 1992, 10
section 20,1 a police officer may-- 11
(a) arrest a child under a provision of another Act authorising the 12
arrest of a person without warrant; or 13
(b) if the police officer reasonably suspects a child has committed or 14
is committing an offence against section 120 or the Traffic Act 15
1949--arrest the child, without warrant.'. 16
17
18
© State of Queensland 1998
1 Section 20 (Arrest and ex officio indictment power preserved)
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