Police Act 1927 (repealed)
A1927-19
Republication No 4
Effective: 1 December 1994
Republication date: 8 May 2009
As repealed by A1994-75 sch 2
Unauthorised version prepared by ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office
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The republished law
This is a republication of the Police Act 1927 (repealed) effective 1 December 1994.
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POLICE ACT 1927
Repealed by No. 75, 1994 (in force 1 December 1994)
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section
1.Short title
2.Commencement
4.Interpretation
Personation etc.
Power to grant general search warrants
Power to search vehicles and suspected persons
Empowering police to visit houses where games carried on etc.
Certain persons may be apprehended without warrant
Police may apprehend any offender whose name and residence is unknown
Apprehension of known offenders
Power to police and persons aggrieved to apprehend certain offenders
Where stolen property attempted to be sold or pawned
Persons arrested without a warrant, how dealt with
THE SCHEDULE
Warrant
POLICE ACT 1927
An Act to provide for the establishment of a Police Force in the Australian Capital Territory
Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Police Act 1927.1
Commencement
2. This Act shall commence on a date to be fixed by the Attorney-General by notice in the Gazette.1
Interpretation
4. In this Act—
“Commissioner” or “Commissioner of Police” means the Commissioner of Police of the Australian Federal Police;
“Police Force” means the Australian Federal Police.
Personation etc.
13.
(1A) A person who, not being a member of the police force of a State or of a Territory of the Commonwealth other than the Australian Capital Territory—
(a)personates or passes herself or himself off as a member of such a police force; or
(b)wears or displays any uniform or badge of a member of such a police force, any colourable imitation of such a uniform or badge, or any uniform or badge so closely resembling such a uniform or badge as to be likely to deceive,
shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) Any person, other than an officer of the Territory or the Commonwealth or of a State, who practises, acts, or describes herself or himself, as a detective or carries on, or assists in, any business or agency, under the description of a detective business or agency, shall be guilty of an offence.
Penalty: 50 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months, or both.
Power to grant general search warrants
14. (1) Notwithstanding any law or custom to the contrary, it shall be lawful for the Commissioner to issue general search warrants to such members of the Police Force as she or he thinks fit.
(2) Every such warrant shall be in accordance with the form in the Schedule to this Act, and shall be signed by…