Police Benefit Fund amendment (1884) (WA)

WE STERN AUSTRALIA

ANNO QUADRAGESCUO OCTAVO

VICTORLE REGINtE

No. 18

An Act to amend an Ordinance to regulate the Police

Benefit Fund. [Assented to 13t/t. September, 1884.

HEREAS by an Ordinance passed in the 30th year of the reign

Westablishment and management of a Police Benefit Fund, and it isof Her present Majesty, No. 10, provision is made for the

enacted that such Fund shall be in part formed out of the moiety or portion (if any) of the fines, penalties, and forfeitures imposed on offenders by any Magistrate or Justice or Justices of the Peace and payable upon the information of any police constable or the Superin- tendent of Police to the informer : And whereas it is desirable that no portion of any fine, penalty, or forfeiture hereafter to be imposed upon any offender as aforesaid, upon the information of any member of the Police Force, shall be paid to the informer, but that such portion shall be paid to the Colonial Treasurer for the use of Her Majesty's Government in the Colony : Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :-

Au portions of 1. Whenever any fine, penalty, or forfeiture shall after the passing

penalties payable of this Act be imposed upon any offender by any Magistrate, Justice

to an informer

being a pollee or Justices of the Peace, upon the information of any member of the

officer to b id

to the Trmesn Prya Police Force, no portion of the said fine, penalty, or forfeiture shall be paid to such informer, or to the Superintendent of Police, on account of the said Police Benefit Fund, but the amount of such portion of the said fine, penalty, or forfeiture payable by law to such informer, being a member of the Police Force as aforesaid, shall be paid to the Colo- nial Treasurer to the use of Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, for the public use of the said Colony and in support of the Government thereof.

F. NAPIER BROOME,

GOVERNOR.