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QUEENSLAND
POLICE (PHOTOGRAPHS) ACT 1966-1981
[Reprinted as at 1 September, 1983]
Police (Photographs) Act 1966, No. 21 As amended by
Police (Photographs) Act Amendment Act 1976, No. 56 Police (Photographs) Act Amendment Act 1981, No. 103
An Act to Regulate the Procurement of Photographs taken for evidentiary purposes for the use of the Police Force of the State of Queensland
[ASSENTED TO 15 DECEMBER, 1966]
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with
•the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
1. Short title. This Act may be cited as "The Police (Photographs) Act of 1966."
Collective title conferred by Act of 1981, No. 103, s. 1 (3).
2. Meaning of terms. A term or expression to which a meaning is assigned by "The Police Acts, 1937 to 1964" shall, when used in this Act, bear the same meaning and any derivative of such a term or expression shall bear a corresponding meaning.
3. Payment for photographic prints. A person for whom a print of a photograph is made by or on behalf of a member of the Police Force in the execution of his duty, pursuant to this Act or otherwise, shaU pay for each such print a reasonable sum fixed by the Commissioner appointed under the Police Act 1937-1973 for the costs and expenses of and in connexion with printing and supplying the same.
The Commissioner may fix different sums in respect of the printing and supply of print<s of different classes, types or sizes and may fix a sum in respect of the printing and supply of a particular print.
Substituted by Act of 1976, No. 56, s. 2.
4. Entitlement to photographic prints. When a print of a photograph has been exhibited in any court or tribunal by or on behalf of the Crown or a member of the Police Force in the execution of his duty a person who requires a print of such photograph for a prescribed purpose shall be entitled, subject to this Act, to have such print.
Original s. 4 renumbered as s. 6 by Act of 1976, No. 56, s. 4.
Present s. 4 inserted by Act of 1976, No. 56, s. 2.
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5. Procedure to obtain photographic print. (1) A person who requires a print of a photograph referred to in section 4 shall make his request therefor, in writing,
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the person who has custody of the photograph and shall therein indicate the purpose for which he requires the print and shall pay to the person who has such custody the sum fixed by the Commissioner pursuant to section 3 that is applicable to the printing and supply of the print sought.(2) If the person who has custody of the photograph is satisfied that the person making the request is entitled as prescribed to the print sought and that the relevant sum has been paid he shall take all steps necessary to have the print made and supplied.
(3) Neither the Crown. nor any person shall be held liable in law on account of the printing and supply of a print pursuant to this Act.
Inserted by Act of 1976, No. 56, s. 3.
6. Certain cases not within s. 4. The provis,ions of section 4 shall not be construed to confer any entitlement upon a person who requires a print of a photograph for the purposes of a proceeding commenced in any court or tribunal on account of 'anything alleged to have been done or to have been omitted by any member of the Police Force or servant of the Crown in right of the State in the execution of his duty except where a print of such photograph has been exhibited in such proceeding.
Present s. 6 (original s. 4) renumbered by Act of 1976, No. 56, s. 4; as amended by Act of 1981, No. 103, s. 2.
7. What a prescribed purpose is. For the purposes of this Act a prescribed purpose is-
( a) the purpose of answering a charge of an offence, the subject matter of or arising out of the proceeding in which has been exhibited a print of the photograph of which a print is required; or ·
(b) the purposes of a proceeding commenced in any court or tribunal, be it the same proceeding in which has been exhibited a print of the photograph of which a print is required or another proceeding; or
(c) the purpose of deciding whether to commence a proceeding in any court or tribunal or to make a particular claim therein; or
(d) the purpose of deciding whether to defend a proceeding which may be commenced in any court or tribunal or to make or resist a particular claim therein.
Inserted by Act of 1976, No. 56, s. 5.
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POLICE (PHOTOGRAPHS) ACT 1966-1981
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Act-
Short title ..
Commissioner-
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cases not within s. 4 of the Act re payment of photographic prints ..
re procedure to obtain a photographic print
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Entitlement-
to a photographic print
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Meaning of terms-
prescribed purpose . . . . . . . . . . terms and expression derivate same meanings in u The Police
Acts, 1937 to 1964"
Photographic prints-
certain cases not within s. 4 of Act entitlement to
payment for ..
procedure to obtain a Prescribed purpose-
meaning of term
Short title- of Act
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6 3 s
4
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6 4 3 s
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