New South Wales

Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Amendment (Kings Cross and Railways Drug Detection) Act 2012 No 81

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Name of Act Commencement Amendment of Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 No 103 Amendment of Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Regulation 2005

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New South Wales

Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Amendment (Kings Cross and Railways Drug Detection) Act 2012 No 81
Act No 81, 2012

An Act to amend the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 to authorise police officers to use dogs for general drug detection in public places in the Kings Cross precinct; and to amend the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Regulation 2005 to authorise police officers to use dogs for that purpose on additional railway lines. [Assented to 29 October 2012]

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Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Amendment (Kings Cross and Railways Drug Detection) Act 2012 No 81

The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:
1 Name of Act

This Act is the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Amendment (Kings Cross and Railways Drug Detection) Act 2012.
2 Commencement

This Act commences on the date of assent to this Act.

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Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Amendment (Kings Cross and Railways Drug Detection) Act 2012 No 81 Amendment of Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 No 103 Schedule 1

Schedule 1

Amendment of Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 No 103

Section 148 General drug detection with dogs in authorised places

Insert after section 148 (1) (d): (e) persons at any public place in the Kings Cross precinct (being the area including and bounded by the parts of streets specified in Schedule 2 to the Liquor Act 2007).

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Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Amendment (Kings Cross and Railways Drug Detection) Act 2012 No 81 Schedule 2 Amendment of Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Regulation 2005

Schedule 2

Amendment of Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Regulation 2005

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Clause 38 Use of drug detection dogs in authorised places--prescribed train routes

Omit "but not including the train line between Lysaghts station and Port Kembla station" from clause 38 (1) (d). Insert instead "and including the train line between Wollongong station and Port Kembla station".
[2] Clause 38 (1)

Insert "and including the train line between Chatswood station and Epping station," at the end of clause 38 (1) (e).
[3] Clause 38 (1)

Insert "the train line between Blacktown station and Richmond station and" after "and including" in clause 38 (1) (g).
[4] Clause 38 (1)

Insert after clause 38 (1) (h): (i) the Southern Highlands route, being the train line that is between Campbelltown station and Goulburn station, (j) the Blue Mountains route, being the train line that is between Lithgow station and Sydney Central station, (k) the Hunter route, being the train line that is between Newcastle station and Dungog station, and including the train line between Maitland station and Scone station, (l) the Airport and East Hills route, being the train line that is: (i) between Sydney Central station and Macarthur station, and (ii) via Wolli Creek station or via Sydenham station,

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Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Amendment (Kings Cross and Railways Drug Detection) Act 2012 No 81 Amendment of Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Regulation 2005 Schedule 2

(m) (n)

the Carlingford route, being the train line that is between Clyde station and Carlingford station, the Cumberland route, being the train line that is between Campbelltown station and Schofields station.

[Second reading speech made in-- Legislative Assembly on 19 September 2012 Legislative Council on 24 October 2012]

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