Police Offences Amendment (Miscellaneous) Act 2010 (TAS)

Police Offences Amendment (Miscellaneous) Act 2010

An Act to amend the Police Offences Act 1935

[Royal Assent 21 December 2010]

Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:

1Short titleThis Act may be cited as the Police Offences Amendment (Miscellaneous) Act 2010 . 2CommencementThis Act commences on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent. 3Principal ActIn this Act, the Police Offences Act 1935 is referred to as the Principal Act. 4Section 15E amended (Body armour) Section 15E of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsection: (1A)  Subsection (1) does not apply to – (a) a police officer acting in the performance of his or her duties; or (b) a person, or group of persons, excluded in writing by the Commissioner from the application of that subsection. 5Section 37MA amended (Special compulsory penalty for prescribed offences) Section 37MA of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsection: (1)  A court that convicts a person of a prescribed offence involving a vehicle must, if the vehicle was clamped or confiscated under this Division in connection with the prescribed offence, order the person to pay a special compulsory penalty. 6Section 37ZD amended (Unclamping or recovery of vehicle clamped or confiscated for second or subsequent prescribed offence) Section 37ZD(1) of the Principal Act is amended by omitting " section 37P or 37Q " and substituting "this Division". 7Repeal of ActThis Act is repealed on the ninetieth day from the day on which it commences.

[Second reading presentation speech made in:

House of Assembly on 16 NOVEMBER 2010

Legislative Council on 24 NOVEMBER 2010]