New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LAW ENFORCEMENT (POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES) ACT 2002 - SECT 87S

87S Content and duration of public safety order

(1) A public safety order must specify--

(a) the public event or premises or other area to which it applies, and

(b) the person (or class of persons) to which it applies, and

(c) that a contravention of the order may constitute an offence that carries a maximum penalty of imprisonment for 5 years, and

(d) in the case of an order that applies to premises or another area other than in connection with a public event--the period during which the order will be in force (being a period not exceeding 72 hours), and

(e) in the case of an order that applies to a public event--

(i) the location or locations in which the event is being held for the purposes of the order, and

(ii) if the public event is held over consecutive days--when the event is taken to start and finish for the purposes of the order, and

(iii) if the public event is held over non-consecutive days--when the event is taken to start and finish for the purposes of the order for each of the days it is held (being a combined period that does not exceed 72 hours in total).

Note : Division 3 enables a person to whom a public safety order applies to appeal to the Supreme Court against the order (or a variation of the order) if the order is (or is to be) in force for a period exceeding 72 hours.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), a public safety order remains in force only for the period or periods specified in the order in accordance with this section.

(3) A public safety order that applies to a public event that is cancelled ceases to be in force on that cancellation.