Police Act Amendment Act 1962 (WA)

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POLICE.

11° Elizabeth II., No. XXIX.

No. 29 of 1962.

AN ACT to amend the Police Act, 1892-1961.

[Assented to 4th October, 1962.]

BE 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, 1962.

Reprinted as

approved for (2) In this Act the Police Act, 1892-1961, is

re print 26t referred to as the principal Act.

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(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Police Act, 1892-1962.

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2. Section sixty-six of the principal Act is !-22 —,nded.

amended

(a)	by adding after the word, "housebreaking", being the last word in paragraph (4), the words "or any explosive substance";
(b)	by adding, after paragraph (12), the following paragraph:

(13) Any person who is or has been, without lawful excuse, in or upon any premises or the curtilage, whether enclosed or fenced or not, of any premises.

; and

(c) by inserting, after the word, "housebreak- ing", in the third last line of the section, the passage, ", and any such explosive substance".

amended by inserting, immediately after the word, amended. 3. Section eighty-nine A of the principal Act is S. 89A

"token", in line three of subsection (3), the passage, "or, if not so operated, that is designed for enter- tainment or amusement and is made available for use, in the place where it is then situated, on the payment, or the prospect of payment, of any valuable consideration;".

4. Section ninety A of the principal Act is =Led,

repealed and re-enacted with amendments as

follows:

False

90A. (1) Every person who, by a written or

reports.

Cf. N.Z. Act

oral statement made to a member of the Police	No. 29 of
Force, represents, contrary to the fact and	1935, s. 4.
without a genuine belief in the truth of his statement, the existence of a circumstance reasonably calling for police investigation or inquiry commits an offence.
Cf. SA.,

(2) Every person who does any act, with the s. 62A.

intention of creating the belief or suspicion

that

(a) an offence has been committed; or

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(b)	human life has, or may have, been lost; or
(c)	a person's safety is. or may be, endangered,

knowing, at the time of doing that act, that the circumstance with respect to which he intends to create the belief or suspicion does not exist, commits an offence.

(3) A court convicting a person of an offence under this section may, in addition to, or without, imposing any penalty, order that person to pay to any other person the amount of any expenses reasonably incurred by that other person, with respect to any investigation, inquiry or search made as a result of the statement or act by reason of which the former person is convicted; and that order may be enforced as though the amount so ordered to be paid were a penalty imposed under this section.

Penalty—One hundred pounds or imprison- ment for three months or both.