Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Police Regulation Act 1958 - SECT 37

Provision not to apply to transfer to police force from other public departments

37. Provision not to apply to transfer to police force from other public
departments

The last preceding section shall not apply to any person who after the first
day of November One thousand eight hundred and ninety-five has been or is
transferred to the police force from any other branch of the public service
unless such person was appointed to some office in the public service prior to
the passing of the Act No. 710 and was employed continuously in the public
service until such transfer. For the purposes of this and the last preceding
section the departments corresponding to the departments subject to the
Railways Act 1958 respectively and to Part IX of The Constitution Act
Amendment Act 1958 respectively and the department formerly subject to the
Defence Act 1890 shall be deemed to have been branches of the public service.