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The Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 (NSW) is an Act of the Parliament of New South Wales which governs the exercise of specific police powers in New South Wales. [1] It The Act contains nineteen parts which either reinforce the common law, relocate existing sections from other Acts or establish new powers and safeguards ...
Acting on recommendations made by the Wood Royal Commission in 1997, the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 - commonly referred to as LEPRA, was passed by New South Wales Parliament as a means of consolidating police powers into a single piece of legislation.
In October 2018, the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) announced plans to launch a formal investigation into the use of strip searches by members the New South Wales Police Force, citing complaints from members of the public and wider community concerns surrounding the practice. [1]
The articles in the Gazette include official notices from municipal councils and government departments about the naming of roads and the acquisition of land as well as changes to legislation and government departments in New South Wales. [2]
The 2009 and 2010 television series Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities and Underbelly: The Golden Mile were loosely based on the activities of the NSW police service and the Wood Royal Commission with Terry Clark, Robert Trimbole, "Chook" Fowler, Trevor Haken, Bill Bayeh, George Freeman and Lenny McPherson all portrayed.
The Amendment Act amended the LECC Act to remove the office of the Commissioner for Oversight and to rename the office of the Commissioner for Integrity as the Commissioner. [34] In 2022, the Governor of NSW appointed two new Commissioners to lead the LECC. [35] The Hon. Peter Johnson SC started his appointment as Chief Commissioner on 4 July 2022.
The Government introduced the Liquor Amendment Bill 2014 to parliament on 31 January 2014, [17] to amend the Liquor Act 2007 and the Liquor Regulations 2008. The Bill would give the minister a regulation-making power to declare areas as prescribed precincts and impose conditions on licensed premises within those precincts. [ 18 ]
On 6 May 2015, the NSW government rushed through the parliament, with all-party support, a bill to amend the Independent Commission Against Corruption Act; [29] the amendments were brought into effect immediately. The Independent Commission Against Corruption Amendment (Validation) Act 2015 (NSW) [30] does not simply reverse the Cunneen decision