Police Act Amendment Act 1940 (WA)

POLICE.

4 GE°. VI., No. XIX.

No. 19 of 1940.

AN ACT to amend sections thirty-three and seventy-

five of the Police Act, 1892-1933.

[Assented to 29th November, 1940.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most .Excellent Majesty,by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. This Act may be cited as the Police Act Amend-	cf. No. 19 of
Short title

ment Act, 1940, and shall be read as one with the Police	1933, s. 3.
Act, 1892-1933 (55 Viet., No. 27), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

No. 191 Police. [1940.

Amendment

of s. 33.	2. Section thirty-three of the principal Act is repealed
Repeal and

new section.	and a section is inserted in lieu thereof as follows :-
Pines and

penalties for	33. (1) All fines and penalties imposed on any of this Act shall be received, collected, and recovered by the Commissioner of Police or other officer appointed by the Governor and, when so received, collected, and recovered shall be paid to the Treasurer of the State for the public uses of the. State.
misconduct
payable to	member of the Police Force by virtue of this Part
Treasurer.
(2) This section shall have effect and operate and shall be deemed to have had effect and to have been in operation as from and after the twenty-ninth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine.
Amendment

of s. 75.	3. Section seventy-five of the principal Act is re-
Repeal and

new section.

pealed and a section is inserted in lieu thereof as fol-

lows:—

Unclaimed

stolen goods	75. (1) When the owner of any goods or money
delivered to

the receiver

charged to be stolen or unlawfully obtained shall

may be sold

after twelve

be unknown, the member of the Police Force having

months.

the same in his custody after the expiration of

Application

of proceeds.

twelve months during which no owner shall have

appeared to claim the same, shall

(a) pay such money in his custody as aforesaid

to the Treasurer of the State;

(b) sell or dispose of such goods in his custody as. aforesaid and pay the net proceeds of such sale or disposition to the Treasurer of the State.

(2)

All moneys paid to the Treasurer of the State under the authority of subsection (1) hereof shall be received by him for the public uses of the State..

(3)

This section shall have effect and operate and shall be deemed to have had effect and to have been in operation as from and after the twenty-ninth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine-

Citation of

principal Act 4. The principal Act as amended by Acts passed

ns amended.

prior to tins Act and as amended by this Act may be

cited as the Police Act, 1892-1940.