Summary Offences (Custody Notification Service) Amendment Regulations 2023 (SA)

South Australia

Summary Offences (Custody Notification Service) Amendment Regulations 2023

under the Summary Offences Act 1953

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1            Short title

2            Commencement

Part 2—Amendment of Summary Offences Regulations 2016

3            Amendment of regulation 33A—Interpretation

4            Amendment of regulation 33C—ALRM to be notified of detention of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander persons

Part 1—Preliminary

1—Short title

These regulations may be cited as the Summary Offences (Custody Notification Service) Amendment Regulations 2023.

2—Commencement

These regulations come into operation 4 months after the day on which they are made (see Legislative Instruments Act 1978 section 10AA).

Part 2—Amendment of Summary Offences Regulations 2016

3—Amendment of regulation 33A—Interpretation

Regulation 33A, definition of responsible officer—delete the definition and substitute:

responsible officer, in respect of a person detained at a police facility in police custody, means the police officer who is for the time being responsible for the custodial management of that person.

4—Amendment of regulation 33C—ALRM to be notified of detention of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander persons

Regulation 33C(1)—delete "police facility must, as soon as is reasonably practicable after a person (including, to avoid doubt, a child) is delivered into the custody of the responsible officer" and substitute:

person (including, to avoid doubt, a child) detained at a police facility in police custody must, as soon as is reasonably practicable after the person is detained at the facility

Made by the Governor's Deputy

with the advice and consent of the Executive Council

on 6 July 2023

No 64 of 2023