POLICE OFFENCES
SOME AMENDMENTS
Apart from imposing severer penalties for unlawful conversion (dealt with under a separate heading), the Police Offences Amendment Bill, introduced into the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon, makes one or two other amendments to the existing law.
The principal Act provides that persons arrested for drunkenness must pay any expenses incurred as well as the cost of their maintenance. The Bill introduced yesterday modifies this provision by stipulating that such an order must be made by a Justice.
Another clause provides.that every person commits an offence and is liable to a fine of £20 oh summary conviction who, in any written or verbal statement made to a police officer,- alleges, contrary to the fact and without a genuine■ belief in'the- truth of his. statement, that a crime or irther offence has been, committed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 87, 9 October 1935, Page 6
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137POLICE OFFENCES Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 87, 9 October 1935, Page 6
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