Traffic Amendment (Tyre Deflation�Police Pursuits) Act 1998 (NSW)
New South Wales
Traffic Amendment (Tyre Deflation—
Police Pursuits) Act 1998 No 112
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1 Name of Act 2 2 Commencement 2 3 Amendment of Traffic Act 1909 NO 5 2
Schedule 1 Amendment 3 New South Wales
Traffic Amendment (Tyre Deflation—
Police Pursuits) Act 1998 No 112
Act No 112, 1998
An Act to amend the Traffic Act 1909 to provide for the use by police officers of tyre deflation devices in connection with the pursuit of vehicles by police. [Assented to 9 November 1998]
| Section 1 | Traffic Amendment (Tyre Deflation-Police Pursuits) Act 1998 No 112 |
The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:
1 Name of Act
This Act is the Traffic Amendment (Tyre Deflation—Police
Pursuits) Act 1998.
2 Commencement
This Act commences on a day to be appointed by proclamation.
Amendment of Traffic Act 1909 No 5
The Traffic Act 1909 is amended as set out in Schedule 1 .
Traffic Amendment (Tyre Deflation-Police Pursuits) Act 1998 No 112 Amendment Schedule 1 Schedule 1 Amendment
(Section 3)
Section 24
Insert after section 23:
24 Use of tyre deflation devices in police pursuits
The Commissioner of Police may authorise the use by police officers of a device (a tyre deflation device) that causes the deflation of the tyres of a vehicle. for use by police to stop or assist in the stopping of a vehicle in connection with the pursuit of the vehicle by police.
Provision made by or under an Act that would operate to prohibit or restrict the placement or deployment on or near a road or road related area of a tyre deflation device does not apply to the placing or deploying of a tyre deflation device by a police officer acting in the exercise of his or her duties.
This section ceases to have effect at the beginning of the day that is 1 year after the day on which this section commences unless either House of Parliament passes a resolution that this section is not to cease to have effect
in accordance with this subsection.
this section is not to cease to have effect in accordance Either House of Parliament may pass a resolution that with subsection (3), but any such resolution has no effect unless passed before the time at which this section
would, but for the resolution, cease to have effect.
[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
Legislative Assembly on 14 October 1998
Legislative Council on 27 October 1998]
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