Justice Legislation Amendment (Protective Services Officers and Other Matters) Act 2017 No. 45 of 2017 table of provisions Section Page Part 1—Preliminary 1 1 Purposes 1 2 Commencement 2 Part 2—Additional powers of protective services officers 3 Division 1—Amendment of the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 3 3 Definitions 3 4 New Part 8.3A inserted 3 Division 2—Amendment of the Control of Weapons Act 1990 4 5 Planned designation of search area 4 6 Unplanned designation of search area 4 7 New section 10GA inserted 5 8 Power to search vehicles 6 9 Information to be given before search occurs 6 10 Seizure of suspected weapons 7 11 Offence to obstruct or hinder search or other powers or fail to comply with direction 7 Division 3—Amendment of the Corrections Act 1986 8 12 Definitions 8 13 Return of prisoner to prison on cancellation of parole 8 14 Arrest and detention for breach of parole order 8 Division 4—Amendment of the Crimes Act 1958 10 15 Requirement to give name and address 10 Division 5—Amendment of the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981 11 16 Definitions 11
amend the Corrections Act 1986 to extend to police custody officer supervisors the powers under Part 9A of that Act in relation to the management of visitors and the power to direct police custody officers to apply an instrument of restraint, to search the police gaol or certain persons and to transport persons; and amend the Victoria Police Act 2013 to provide for psychological fitness for duty assessments for police officers and protective services officers; and amend the Victoria Police Act 2013 to establish the role of police custody officer supervisors in police gaols; and amend the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 to facilitate transport of children held in police custody to and from courts and youth justice facilities; and (f) to amend the Second-Hand Dealers and Pawnbrokers Act 1989 to regulate payments for scrap metal and to provide for enforcement; and make consequential and other technical amendments to other Acts. 2 Commencement (1) This Act (except Part 4 and section 60) into operation on a day or days to be proclaimed. (2) Subject to subsection (3), Part 4 and section 60 comes into operation on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent. (3) If a provision of this Act does not come into operation before 30 May 2018, it into operation on that day.
that warrant to seize any thing may, if the thing cannot, or cannot readily, be physically seized and removed, issue an embargo notice in the prescribed form— causing a copy of the notice to be served on the occupier; or the occupier cannot be located after all reasonable steps have been taken to do so, by affixing a copy of the notice to the thing in a prominent position. person who that an embargo notice relates to a thing and who— or or the written consent of the police officer who issued the embargo notice, or or deals with— the thing or any part of the thing is guilty of an offence and liable to a penalty not exceeding 50 penalty units. is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (2) to prove that the accused moved the thing or the part of the thing for the purpose of protecting and preserving it. anything in any other Act, a sale, lease, transfer or other dealing with a thing in contravention of this section is void.