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Police Act 1990
129Registration of misconduct matters
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#### 129 Registration of misconduct matters
129 Registration of misconduct matters
> > (1) The following must be registered in the misconduct matters information system—
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> > > (a) all police complaints, administrative employee complaints and agency complaints about the NSW Police Force received by the Commissioner and the LECC,
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> > > (b) such information about misconduct information as is required to be registered in the system by misconduct matters management guidelines.
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> > (2) Despite subsection (1), the LECC may direct that information about a misconduct matter or a specified class of misconduct matters—
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> > > (a) is not to be entered in the misconduct matters information system, or
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> > > (b) is to be removed from the misconduct matters information system, or
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> > > (c) is to be entered or re-entered in the misconduct matters information system.
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> > (2A) Despite subsection (1), information about a misconduct matter (or part of a misconduct matter) received by the LECC or of which it becomes aware that is not referred to the Commissioner is not required to be registered in the misconduct matters information system unless the LECC directs that a misconduct matter received by the LECC be entered in the system.
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> > (3) The LECC Chief Commissioner, and such other officers of the LECC as are authorised in that regard by the Chief Commissioner, are to have unrestricted access to all information in the misconduct matters information system.
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> > (4) The LECC Chief Commissioner may place a caveat on particular information registered in the system and, in that event, access to that information by other agencies and other persons is to be restricted in accordance with the terms of the caveat.
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> > (5), (6) (Repealed)
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> **s 129:** Ins 1998 No 123, Sch 1 \[3\]. Am 2006 No 94, Sch 2 \[24\]; 2007 No 68, Sch 1 \[20\]; 2016 No 61, Sch 5.1 \[28\]–\[31\]; 2020 No 30, Sch 2.31\[3\].