Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) For the purposes of any law that confers powers exercisable in public places the Shire of Aurukun and the Shire of Mornington shall be deemed to be public places except for such parts thereof as are used by a resident therein as the resident's residence or place of business.
(2) Persons exercising or about to exercise such powers or any of them are authorised to be in the shire in which the exercise is occurring or is about to occur.
(3) The function of maintaining peace and good order in all parts of the demised land in the Shire of Aurukun or the Shire of Mornington shall be that of persons who are appointed, for the time being, as Aboriginal police for the shire pursuant to subsection (4).
(4) The council of each of the shires aforesaid may, subject to the approval of the Minister for Police, appoint such number of persons as it considers necessary for the peace and good order of the shire to be Aboriginal police for the shire and shall equip such persons appointed with a uniform and such other marks of authority as it thinks fit to enable such persons to perform their function.
(5) Aboriginal police appointed for a shire shall have and may exercise, within the area of their jurisdiction prescribed by subsection (3), such powers as are conferred on them by this Act or local law of the council of the shire, and if at any time a police officer is stationed in the shire or is in the shire in execution of the police officer's duty they shall perform their function and exercise their powers subject to the direction and control of such police officers.
(6) Also, for the administration and enforcement of the liquor provisions in a shire, the police officer in charge for the shire may authorise an Aboriginal police officer to exercise in the area the powers of--
(a) an investigator under the Liquor Act 1992, part 7;7 or
(b) a police officer under the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000, sections 51 to 53.8
(7) For subsection (6)(b), the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000, sections 51 to 53, apply as if a reference in the sections to a police officer were a reference to an Aboriginal police officer.
(8) It is lawful for a person charged by subsection (3) with the maintenance of peace and good order to use reasonable force in the performance of that function.