Police Act Amendment Act 1956 (WA)

No. 20.] Police. [1956.

POLICE.

5° Elizabeth II., No. XX.

No. 20 of 1956.

AN ACT to amend the Police Act, 1892-1955.

[Assented to 19th November, 1956.]

RE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

Short title

and citation. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Police Act

Amendment Act, 1956.

Reprinted In

Vol. 6 of the	(2) In this Act the Police Act, 1892-1955,
Reprinted
Acts:

approved for	Act 55 Victoriae No. 27, 1892, as reprinted with
reprint 23rd
March. 1953.	amendments to and including Act No. 15 of 1952 incorporated pursuant to the provisions of the Amendments Incorporation Act, 1938, and further amended by Acts Nos. 28 of 1953, 6 of 1954, 25 of 1954, 63 of 1954 and 8 of 1955,

is referred to as the principal Act.

1956.] Police. [No. 20.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may

be cited as the Police Act, 1892-1956.

2. Section sixty-five of the principal Act is 85 am'

amended by adding after paragraph (4) the follow-

ing paragraph:

(4a) Every person who, without lawful excuse, carries or has on or about his person any rifle, gun, pistol, sword, dagger, knife, sharpened chain, club, bludgeon or truncheon, or any other offensive or lethal weapon or instrument..