1: Title
This Act is the Duties of Statutory Officers (Census and Other Remedial Provisions) Act 2011
2: Commencement
This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent.
1: Statistics Act 1975
3: Principal Act amended
This Part Statistics Act 1975 2011-08-30 Statistics Act 1975
4: Census of population and dwellings
1: Section 23(1) 1976 2013
2: Section 23
4: Despite subsection (2), in the case of the 2013 census of population and dwellings, the Statistician must, by notice given in the Gazette
5: The notice given under subsection (4)
2: Statutes Drafting and Compilation Act 1920
5: Principal Act amended
This Part Statutes Drafting and Compilation Act 1920 2011-08-30 Statutes Drafting and Compilation Act 1920
6: New sections 8B to 8D inserted
The following sections are inserted after section 8A
8B: Delegation of functions, responsibilities, duties, or powers
1: The Chief Parliamentary Counsel—
a: may from time to time, either generally or particularly, delegate to any Parliamentary Counsel or other staff member of the Parliamentary Counsel Office any of the functions, responsibilities, duties, or powers of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel, including functions or powers delegated to the Chief Parliamentary Counsel under any Act:
b: must ensure that an appropriate delegation is at all times in place under this section to enable a person to act in place of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel during any absence or incapacity of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel or during any vacancy in the office of Chief Parliamentary Counsel.
2: The person to whom any functions, responsibilities, duties, or powers are delegated under this section may perform or exercise those functions, responsibilities, duties, or powers in the same manner and with the same effect as if they had been conferred on that person directly by this Act and not by delegation.
3: Subsection (2)
4: A person purporting to act under any delegation under this section is, in the absence of proof to the contrary, presumed to be acting in accordance with the terms of the delegation.
5: A delegation under this section may be made to—
a: a specified person or persons of a specified class; or
b: the holder or holders for the time being of a specified position, or of a specified class of positions.
6: No delegation under this section affects or prevents the performance or exercise of any function, responsibility, duty, or power by the Chief Parliamentary Counsel, or affects the responsibility of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel for the actions of any person acting under the delegation.
8C: Absence or incapacity of Chief Parliamentary Counsel or vacancy
1: A person who holds a delegation referred to in section 8B(1)(b)
2: No acts done by the person acting in place of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel under subsection (1)
8D: Revocation of delegations
1: A delegation under section 8B
2: A delegation, until it is revoked, continues to have effect according to its terms even if the Chief Parliamentary Counsel by whom it was made has ceased to hold office.
3: A delegation made by a Chief Parliamentary Counsel who has ceased to hold office continues to have effect as if made by the successor in office of that Chief Parliamentary Counsel.


1: Title
This Act is the Policing (Storage of Youth Identifying Particulars) Amendment Act 2011.
2: Commencement
This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent.
3: Principal Act amended
This Act amends the Policing Act 2008 2011-08-30 Policing Act 2008
1: Purpose and application of this Act
4: Purpose of this Act
The purpose of this Act is to amend the principal Act
5: Application of this Act
The sections 34 section 6 section 130(2)
2: Amendment to principal Act
6: New sections 34 and 34A substituted
Section 34
34: Storage, etc, on Police information recording system of identifying particulars
1: The identifying particulars of a person that are obtained under section 32 or 33 may be entered, recorded, and stored on a Police information recording system.
2: But photographs or visual images of a person, and impressions of a person's fingerprints, palm-prints, or footprints, that are obtained under section 32 or 33 must be destroyed as soon as practicable after—
a: a decision is made not to commence criminal prosecution proceedings against the person in respect of the offence for which the particulars were taken; or
b: criminal prosecution proceedings that are commenced against the person in respect of the offence for which the particulars were taken are completed with an outcome (for example, an acquittal) that is not an outcome (specified in section 34A
3: In this section and section 34A criminal prosecution proceedings
a: commenced against the person in respect of that offence or offences including that offence under the Crimes Act 1961, or under the Summary Proceedings Act 1957 (alone or, if the person is a child or a young person as defined in section 2(1) of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989, in conjunction with that Act); and
b: some or all of which (for example, any committal process proceedings) are heard or determined, at first instance, in a District Court, the High Court, a Youth Court, or a combination of those courts the offence for which the particulars were taken 1958 No 109 s 57(3)
34A: Outcomes authorising continued storage of certain particulars
The outcomes mentioned in section 34(2)(b)
a: the person admits to, and completes a programme of diversion (being a programme conducted by the Police) for, the offence for which the particulars were taken:
b: the person is convicted of the offence for which the particulars were taken (for example, by virtue of a District Court or the High Court entering a conviction, or a Youth Court entering a conviction and making an order under section 283(o) of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989):
c: the Youth Court makes an order under any of paragraphs (a) to (n) of section 283 of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989 in respect of the person and the offence for which the particulars were taken:
d: the person is discharged under section 106 of the Sentencing Act 2002 in respect of the offence for which the particulars were taken.