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Police Administration Act 1978
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165 Police Gazette
(1) The Commissioner may authorise the publication of a document to
be known as the Police Gazette containing such orders,
instructions, determinations, directions, notices and other things:
(a) as are required to be published in it by this Act or by the
regulations; or
(b) as the Commissioner thinks fit.
(2) No person, other than a member of the Police Force shall, without
reasonable cause, knowingly:
(a) have in his possession a copy of the Police Gazette; or
(b) reproduce in any manner the whole or a part of a Police
Maximum penalty: 1.7 penalty units.
(3) No liability, civil or criminal, shall attach to the Crown, the
Commissioner or any person acting under the direction of the
Commissioner, for anything contained in the Police Gazette.