Police Act Amendment Act 1955 (WA)

1955.] Police. [No. 8.

POLICE.

4° Elizabeth II., No. VIII.

No. 8 of 1955.

AN ACT to amend the Police Act, 1892-1954.

[Assented to 19th October, 1955.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative 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- 22==v:a

ment Act, 1955.

Approved for

(2) In this Act the Police Act, 1892-1954,

reprint

23rd March,

1953.

Act 55 Victories No. 27, 1892, as reprinted with	Government
Printer's
reference
amendments to and including Act No. 15 of 1952	63988/3/53.
incorporated pursuant to the provisions of the

No. 8.] Police. [1955.

Amendments Incorporation Act, 1938, and further amended by Acts Nos. 28 of 1953, 6 of 1954 and 25 of 1954,

is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Police Act, 1892-1955.

S. 65

Section sixty-five of the principal Act is amended by adding after the word, "manner" being the last word in paragraph (8), the following para- graph:—

amended. 2.

Cf. Act No.

30. 1929,	(9) Every person who habitually consorts with reputed criminals or known prostitutes or persons who have been convicted of having no visible lawful means of support.
5.2 (b),
N.S.W.
S.85

amended. 3. Section eighty-five of the principal Act is

amended by deleting the words "and seal" in line

six.

The Second

Schedule 4. The "Form of Warrant" in the Second Schedule

amended. to the principal Act is amended by

(a)	substituting for the figures "1952" in line ten the figures "1955";
(b)	deleting the letters "L.S." in brackets thus- [L.S.] in the third last line;
(c)	deleting the words "and seal" in the second last line.