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Law Enforcement Conduct Commission Act 2016
159Impersonation of officer of Commission
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#### 159 Impersonation of officer of Commission
159 Impersonation of officer of Commission
> > (1) A person must not directly or indirectly represent that he or she is an officer of the Commission (whether generally or of a particular class of officer), unless the person is such an officer (or of that class).
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> > Maximum penalty—50 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months, or both.
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> > (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a person represents that a state of affairs exists if the person does or says anything, or causes, permits or suffers anything to be done or said, whereby it is represented, or whereby a belief may be induced, that the state of affairs exists.