Police Inquiry Act 1918 (NSW)

Police Inquiry Act, 63

POLICl^] IXC^UIRY ACT.

Act No. 19, 1918.

An Act to appoint a Coinniissionor to make inquiry George V,

privileges, and immunities upon such Com­ missioner ; to apply the provisions of the Ivoyal Commissioners Evidence Act, 1901, and the Boorahil Commission Act, 1914, to such inquiry; to amend those Acts ; and for ])urposes conse(|uent thereon or incidental thereto. [Assented to, 17th August, 1918.]

relating- to certain charges iiiade against No. 19.

certain members of the New South Wales

H O P it enacted I)y the King's Most Excelh'nt iMajesty, ^13 hy and nitli the advice and consc'nt of the Li'gis- iative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and hy the autliority of the same, as follows :—

1 . This Act may be cited as the “ Police Inquirv short title.

Act, 1918.” ‘

2 . The Honourable Mr. -Tustice Street is hereby ap- I 'oimni.'̂ -

pointed a Commissioner to inquire into etn-tain charges

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made against metnhers of tlie Ntnv South IVales Police Porce in rt'spect of their conduct in connection with the case of The King versus Peeve and otliers, lieard at tin; Central Criminal Court, Darlinghurst, l)efort! the Honourable Mr. .Tustice Pring and a jury of tAvelve persons, on the sixth day of November, one tbousand nine hundred and sixt('cn, and subsequent days, contained in speeches made in the Legislative Assembly by the Honorable Member for Sturt, Mr. Brookfield, and tbe Honorable Member for Botany, Mr. Mutch, on the tenth and eleventh days of the

. month

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George V, month of July of the present year, and in a certain

No. 19. statutory declaration hy Edward Ernest .Judd, dated eleventh day of -Inly, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, and in certain documents referred to hy the said Edward Ernest .Judd in paragraph two of the said declaration alleged by the said Edward Ernest .Judd to h(‘ then in his possession.

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3 . Tlie said Commissioner shall, for the ])ui'poses of such inquiry, have all the powers, rights, i)vivileges, and immunities conferred hy the j)rovisions ol' the iloyal Commissioners Evidence Act, 1901, on a Com­ missioner appointed hy letters patent under the Great Seal, and all powers, rights, privileges, and immunities conferred upon the llonourahle Mr. .lustice

missioner.

Application

of certain

Pring by the provisions of the lioorabil Commission

provisions to

Act, 1911, and all the other provisions of those Acts

this inquiry.

shall, in so i'ar as tliey are applicable, apply to the inquiry to ho lield hy the Commissioner appointed hy this Act.

Amendment

4 . Scctioii clevcii of tlic Pioyal Commissioners Evidence Act, 1901, as inserted by section twelve of

missioners

the Boorahil Conrmission Act, 1914, is amended by

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omitting the words “ within two years after the passing

of this Act.”

of Com­

PRISONS