Queensland Consolidated Acts

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMUNITIES (JUSTICE, LAND AND OTHER MATTERS) ACT 1984 - SECT 82

82 Aboriginal and Island police officers

(1) This section applies to a person if, immediately before the commencement, the person held appointment, in relation to an area, as—

(a) an Island police officer under the repealed Torres Strait Act; or

(b) an Aboriginal police officer under this Act.

(2) From the commencement, the person, without further appointment, holds appointment as a community police officer under this Act in relation to the same area, and for that purpose—

(a) is taken to have been appointed under this Act; and

(b) subject to any action that may be taken under section 14 in relation to the community police officer’s responsibilities, continues to have the same responsibilities with which the person was charged immediately before the commencement.

(3) A reference in any Act or document to an Aboriginal or Island police officer may, if the context permits, be taken to be a reference to a community police officer.