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Serial 74
Police
Administration Amendment (Service Medal) Bill
2009
Mr
Mills
A Bill for an Act to amend the Police Administration Act
NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA
POLICE ADMINISRATION AMENDMENT (SERVICE MEDAL) ACT 2009
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Act No. [ ] of 2009
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Table of provisions
166A Service
Medal
Part
XI Transitional matters for the Police
Administration Amendment (Service Medal) Act 2009
169 Application of
section 166A to matters before commencement
NORTHERN
TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA
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Act No. [ ] of 2009
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An Act to amend the Police Administration Act
[Assented to [ ] 2009]
[Second reading [ ] 2009]
The Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory enacts as follows:
This Act may be cited as the Police Administration Amendment (Service Medal) Act 2009.
This Act amends the Police Administration Act.
3 Repeal and substitution of section 166A
Section 166A
repeal, substitute
(1) The Administrator may award a medal, to be known as the Police Service Medal, to a member who, subject to this section, has completed 10 years continuous meritorious service as a member.
(2) A member is taken to have completed 10 years continuous service whether or not the member was seconded to a prescribed entity for all or part of the 10 years of continuous service.
(3) A member has not completed 10 years continuous service as a member if, during that 10 year period, the member was granted a period of unpaid leave by the Commissioner, except for secondment to a prescribed entity.
(4) However, if a member was granted unpaid leave (other than for secondment to a prescribed entity) but completes 2 or more periods of service totalling 10 years, the member is taken to have completed 10 years continuous service.
(5) Also, the Commissioner may determine that periods of service totalling 10 years may be counted as continuous in relation to a member if, during the period that included the 10 years, all of the following happened:
(a) the member resigned under section 20;
(b) within 2 years after the date of resignation – the member applied for re-appointment as a member;
(c) the member was subsequently re-appointed as a member.
(6) The Police Service Medal must be in a form, and with attachments, as the Administrator thinks fit.
(7) In this section:
prescribed entity means any of the following:
(a) a police force established by an Act of the Commonwealth, a State or another Territory;
(b) the Northern Territory Police Association Incorporated;
(c) the Australian Crime Commission established under the Australian Crime Commission Establishment Act 2002 (Clth) or any of its predecessors, including, for example, the National Crime Commission;
(d) another entity prescribed by regulation.
After section 168
insert
Part XI Transitional matters for the Police Administration Amendment (Service Medal) Act 2009
169 Application of section 166A to matters before commencement
For determining 10 years continuous service under section 166A in relation to a member, any of the following that happened before the commencement of this section may be taken into account:
(a) the appointment of, and service by, the member;
(b) after the member's appointment – the member's secondment to a prescribed entity within the meaning of section 166A;
(c) any of the following:
(i) the member's resignation;
(ii) the member's resignation and application for re-appointment;
(ii) the member's resignation, application for re-appointment and subsequent re-appointment;
(d) any period of unpaid leave taken by the member.
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