Police Act Amendment Act 1973 (Qld)

621 C-_ ANNO VICESIMO SECUNDO THAE SE C U N DAE REGIN A E No. 71 of 19 7 3 An Act to amend the Police ' et 1937-1 971 i n certain par`` [ASSENTED TO 191H DECEMBER, 1973] BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- 1. Short title and citation. (1) This Act may be cited as the Police Act Amendment Act 1973. (2) The Police Act 1937-1971 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act. (3) The Principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Police Act 1937-1973. 2.' . of s. 57, Section 57 of the Principal Act is amended by-- (a) in subs ction (2), in paragraph (a), omitting from provision (b) of subparagraph (i) the words " appointed by the Governor in Council " and substituting the words " whose name is at the material time notified as that of the stipendiary magistrate appointed by the Governor in Council pursuant to subsection (2A) "; (b) inserting after subsection (2) the following subsection:-- " (2A) C of Board constituted for appeals against pr( L) The Governor in Council shall, and may from time to tinm', by notification published in the Gazette notify the name of a stipendiary magistrate who shall be a member of the Appeal Board constituted for the purpose of any and every appeal against promotion, and who shall be the chairman thereof.

622 Police Act Amendment Act 1973. No. 71 (b) If for any reason the conduct of the business of the Appeal Board constituted for the purpose of an appeal against promotion requires, in the opinion of the Governor in Council. that a notification under paragraph (a) be made for a specified period only, the Governor in Council may notify the name of a stipendiary magistrate to be a member of the Appeal Board and to be chairman thereof for that specified period, and the stipendiary magistrate so notified may exercise the powers conferred by this paragraph (b) notwithstanding that the name of any other stipendiary magistrate is at the material time notified pursuant to paragraph (a). (c) The Appeal Board constituted for the purpose of an appeal against promotion shall have as its chairman the stipendiary magistrate appointed pursuant to paragraph (a) or (b). (d) It shall be the duty of any stipendiary magistrate whose name is notified pursuant to paragraph (a) or (b) to be a member and the chairman of the Appeal Board constituted for the purpose of an appeal against promotion while his name remains so notified or, as the case may be, until the expiration of the specified period for which his name is so notified, to be a member and the chairman of the Appeal Board.".