I am deeply concerned about some provisions of the COVID-19 Omnibus (Emergency) and Other Acts Amendment Bill 2020 (Vic) which will be before the Victorian Legislative Council in mid-October. 我对将于10月中旬提交的维多利亚州立法委员会的《COVID-19综合(紧急)和2020年其他法令修正案法案(维州)》 中的某些规定表示严正关注。Firstly, this Bill would allow the head of the Department of Health and Human Services to appoint any person he or she considered appropriate based on the person’s skills, attributes, experience or otherwise to be an ‘authorised officer’. There would be no requirement that the newly appointed ‘authorised officer’ be a police officer, or a public servant who is directly employed by the government. The person chosen could be any citizen such as your neighbour, private security or a union official. 首先,该法案将允许卫生与公共服务部负责人根据技能、特质、经验或其他方式任命认为合适的任何人为“授权官” (authorised officer) 。新委任的“授权官”不一定是警务人员或政府直接聘用的公务员,它可以是任何公民,例如您的邻居,私人保安或工会官员。Secondly, the Bill would expand the emergency powers to allow an authorised officer to detain any person that the ‘authorised officer’ reasonably believes is likely to fail to comply with an emergency direction. 其次,该法案将扩大紧急状态下的权力,允许“授权官”拘留他合理地认为的可能不遵守紧急条例的任何人。Furthermore, this power of detention could continue for as long as the ‘authorised officer’ reasonably believes the detained person is ‘likely to refuse or fail to comply’ with an emergency direction. 此外,只要“授权官”合理地相信被拘留者“可能拒绝或不遵守”紧急指示,这种拘留权就可以持续。If passed by Parliament, these provisions would confer powers that, in effect, would allow appointed citizens to detain fellow citizens in Victoria based on a subjective belief that certain conduct might occur. 如果这个法案得到维多利亚州议会的通过,这些规定将赋予维州政府权力,允许被任命的非政府执法人员基于主观判断,拘留任何被认为有可能作出某些行为的维州市民。This should seriously concern every Victorian.
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