Police Regulation Act 1853 No 14a (NSW)

No. XIV.

An Act to amend the Police Regulat ion Act and

for other purposes therein mentioned.	[19th
August, 1853.]

WHEREAS by the fourth section of the Act passed in the sixteenth year of the reign of Her present Majesty " for the Regulation	of the Police Force" it is enacted that it shall he lawful for the
Inspector General to appoint all Chief and other Constables for the Metropolitan District and the Constables for the Mounted Patrols Gold Escorts and Gold Police and for the several Benches of Magis­ trates in all other Districts to appoint Chief and other Constables for such Districts respectively And whereas it is considered that by such enactment the authority of all such Chief and other Constables is restricted to the Districts for which they may have been respectively appointed And whereas it is necessary for the public security that all such Chief and other Constables should be empowered to act as Peace Officers and Constables throughout the whole of the Colony Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows :—
1. All Chief and other Constables now appointed or hereafter to be appointed within the Colony shall whether their respective appointments shall have been made for the Metropolitan or for any other Police District or for the said Mounted Patrols Gold Escorts or Gold Police have power to act as Peace Officers and Constables throughout the whole of the Colony so long as they continue to hold office as such.
2. No action suit information indictment or other proceeding whatsoever shall be commenced or prosecuted against any Chief or other Constable in respect of any matter or thing done by them or any of them out of their respective Districts for or by reason of their want of jurisdiction therein arising from the causes hereinbefore mentioned and it shall be lawful for the defendant or defendants in any such action suit information indictment or other proceeding to apply to the Supreme Court or any Judge thereof to stay proceedings and such Court or Judge respectively is hereby required to stay such proceedings accordingly and to make such order in regard to the costs of such application as to the said Court or Judge shall seem fit. No. XV.