diff --git a/s3tests/functional/policy.py b/s3tests/functional/policy.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..910461a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/s3tests/functional/policy.py
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+import json
+
+class Statement(object):
+    def __init__(self, action, resource, principal = {"AWS" : "*"}, effect= "Allow", condition = None):
+        self.principal = principal
+        self.action = action
+        self.resource = resource
+        self.condition = condition
+        self.effect = effect
+
+    def to_dict(self):
+        d = { "Action" : self.action,
+              "Principal" : self.principal,
+              "Effect" : self.effect,
+              "Resource" : self.resource
+        }
+
+        if self.condition is not None:
+            d["Condition"] = self.condition
+
+        return d
+
+class Policy(object):
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.statements = []
+
+    def add_statement(self, s):
+        self.statements.append(s)
+        return self
+
+    def to_json(self):
+        policy_dict = {
+            "Version" : "2012-10-17",
+            "Statement":
+            [s.to_dict() for s in self.statements]
+        }
+
+        return json.dumps(policy_dict)
diff --git a/s3tests/functional/test_s3.py b/s3tests/functional/test_s3.py
index f75c7a8..1b32535 100644
--- a/s3tests/functional/test_s3.py
+++ b/s3tests/functional/test_s3.py
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ from boto.s3.tagging import TagSet
 from .utils import assert_raises
 from .utils import generate_random
 from .utils import region_sync_meta
+
+from .policy import Policy, Statement
+
 import AnonymousAuth
 
 from email.header import decode_header
@@ -9876,27 +9879,36 @@ def test_bucket_policy_put_obj_acl():
 
     bucket = get_new_bucket()
 
-    tag_conditional = {"StringNotLike": {
+    # An allow conditional will require atleast the presence of an x-amz-acl
+    # attribute a Deny conditional would negate any requests that try to set a
+    # public-read/write acl
+    conditional = {"StringLike": {
         "s3:x-amz-acl" : "public*"
     }}
 
+    p = Policy()
     resource = _make_arn_resource("{}/{}".format(bucket.name, "*"))
-    policy_document = make_json_policy("s3:PutObject",
-                                       resource,
-                                       conditions=tag_conditional)
+    s1 = Statement("s3:PutObject",resource)
+    s2 = Statement("s3:PutOBject", resource, effect="Deny", condition=conditional)
+
+    policy_document = p.add_statement(s1).add_statement(s2).to_json()
 
     bucket.set_policy(policy_document)
 
     new_conn = _get_alt_connection()
-    alt_bucket = new_conn.get_bucket(bucket.name, validate=False)
+    #alt_bucket = new_conn.get_bucket(bucket.name, validate=False)
 
     key1 ='private-key'
-    obj1 = bucket.new_key(key1)
+    #obj1 = alt_bucket.new_key(key1)
 
     # if we want to be really pedantic, we should check that this doesn't raise
-    # and mark failure, however if this does raise nose will mark it as an
-    # ERROR anyway
-    obj1.set_contents_from_string(key1)
+    # and mark a failure, however if this does raise nosetests would mark this
+    # as an ERROR anyway
+    #obj1.set_contents_from_string(key1)
+    headers = {"x-amz-acl" : "private"}
+    res = new_conn.make_request('PUT', bucket.name, key1, data=key1)
+    eq(res.status, 200)
+
 
     key2 = 'public-key'
     headers = {"x-amz-acl":"public-read"}