New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 546D

546D Impersonation of police officers

(1) General offence A person who impersonates a police officer is guilty of an offence.

: Maximum penalty--Imprisonment for 2 years, or a fine of 100 penalty units, or both.

(2) Aggravated offence A person who, with intent to deceive--

(a) impersonates a police officer, and

(b) purports to exercise a power or function as a police officer,

is guilty of an offence.

: Maximum penalty--Imprisonment for 7 years.

(3) An offence against subsection (1) is a summary offence.

(4) In this section--

"impersonation" does not include conduct engaged in solely for satirical purposes.