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Police Administration Act 1978
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104 Agency arrangement
(1) An agency arrangement is an arrangement, or a series of
arrangements, between the Commissioner and the chief executive
officer (by whatever name known) of a relevant agency providing
for the following:
(a) the transfer of possession of a batch of a dangerous drug from
the possession of the relevant agency into the possession of
the Police Force;
(b) that the batch of the dangerous drug is to be used for training
in the Police Force;
(c) the type and extent of the training for which the batch of the
dangerous drug is to be used;
(d) what is to be done with the batch of the dangerous drug at the
end of the training;
(e) anything else the parties to the arrangement consider
appropriate.
Example for subsection (1)
A series of arrangements could consist of a first arrangement establishing basic
principles to govern the supply by the relevant agency to the Police Force of
dangerous drugs to be used for training, a second arrangement establishing
particular procedures to be followed for transferring particular types of dangerous
drugs between the relevant agency and the Police Force, and a third
arrangement providing for special circumstances applying to a batch of one of the
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particular types of dangerous drugs mentioned in the second arrangement.
(2) The Commissioner may enter into an agency arrangement only if
the relevant agency is authorised to possess the batch of the
dangerous drug the subject of the arrangement.
(3) The Commissioner must ensure the Police Force complies with an
agency arrangement.