Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE ACT 1979 - SECT 40RI

  (1)   For the purposes of this Act, an AFP practices issue is an issue about the practices or procedures of the Australian Federal Police (whether those practices or procedures are carried out within, or outside, Australia).

  (2)   Without limiting subsection   (1), an AFP practices issue includes an issue of whether a practice or procedure of the Australian Federal Police is or has been:

  (a)   contrary to law; or

  (b)   unreasonable, unjust, oppressive or improperly discriminatory; or

  (c)   inadequate; or

  (d)   otherwise wrong or inappropriate.

  (3)   For the purposes of this Act, the practices or procedures of the Australian Federal Police include:

  (a)   the rules, orders and instructions (including the Commissioner's Orders) in accordance with which AFP appointees are required to perform their duties; and

  (b)   the policies adopted or followed by the Australian Federal Police; and

  (c)   the practices and procedures ordinarily followed by AFP appointees in the performance of their duties.

  (4)   This section has effect subject to section   40RJ.