Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Amendment (Crime Scenes in Rural Areas) Regulation 2018 (NSW)

New South Wales

Law Enforcement (Powers and

Responsibilities) Amendment (Crime Scenes

in Rural Areas) Regulation 2018

under the

Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following

Regulation under the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002.

MARK SPEAKMAN, MP

Attorney General

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to replace the current list of rural areas that are prescribed as areas in which a police officer may exercise certain crime scene powers for a maximum of 6 hours without obtaining a crime scene warrant. (Those powers may be exercised for not more than 4 hours in any other area).

The areas in the new list are described by reference to Police Districts, which have replaced Local Area section 92 (3) and 238 (the general regulation-making power).
Commands as part of the reorganisation of the NSW Police Force.
Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Amendment (Crime Scenes in Rural Areas) Regulation

2018 [NSW]

Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Amendment

(Crime Scenes in Rural Areas) Regulation 2018

under the

Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Amendment
(Crime Scenes in Rural Areas) Regulation 2018.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on 30 March 2018 and is required to be published on the
NSW legislation website.

3 Amendment of Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Regulation 2016

Clause 48

Omit the clause. Insert instead:

48      Exercise of powers at crime scenes—prescribed rural areas

For the purposes of section 92 (3) of the Act, the following Police Districts (as determined by the Commissioner of Police under clause 4 of the Police Regulation 2015 and in force immediately before 30 March 2018) are prescribed as rural areas:

(a)	Barrier Police District,
(b)	Central North Police District,
(c)	Central West Police District,
(d)	Chifley Police District,
(e)	The Hume Police District,
(f)	Monaro Police District,
(g)	Murray River Police District,
(h)	Murrumbidgee Police District,

(i)      New England Police District,

(j)	Orana Mid-Western Police District,
(k)	Oxley Police District,
(l)	Riverina Police District,
(m)	South Coast Police District.