Prohibited Weapons Act 1989 Regulation relating to exemptions for Police (1995-98) [GG No 23 of 3.3.1995] (NSW)

1995—No. 98

PROHIBITED WEAPONS ACT 1989—REGULATION

(Relating to exemptions for Police)

NEW SOUTH WALES

[Published in Gazette No. 23 of 3 March 1995]

HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of the Prohibited Weapons Act 1989, has been pleased to make the Regulation set forth hereunder.

GARRY WEST, M.P.,
Minister for Police.

The Prohibited Weapons Regulation 1990 is amended by inserting after item 3 in Schedule 1 the following item:

Federal and interstate Police

4. For the purposes of sections 5 and 6 of the Act, a police officer in the Australian Federal Police or the police force of another State or a Territory is authorised to possess and use prohibited weapons and prohibited articles, but only while acting in the ordinary course of the person’s duties as such a police officer.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Regulation makes it clear that members of the Federal Police and interstate Police Forces are, while carrying out duties in New South Wales, exempt from the prohibitions in the Act against possession and use of prohibited weapons and prohibited articles.

This Regulation is made under the Prohibited Weapons Act 1989, in particular

sections 5 and 6, and section 20 (the general regulation making power).