Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE ACT 1979 - SECT 5

             (1)  In a law of the Commonwealth or of the Australian Capital Territory:

                     (a)  a reference to a Commonwealth Police Officer shall be read as a reference to a member of the Australian Federal Police;

                     (b)  a reference to the Commonwealth Police Force shall be read as a reference to the Australian Federal Police;

                     (c)  a reference to the Police Force of that Territory shall be read as a reference to the Australian Federal Police;

                     (d)  a reference to an officer of police of that Territory shall be read as a reference to a member of the Australian Federal Police; and

                     (e)  a reference to the Commissioner of Police of that Territory, however described, shall be read as a reference to the Commissioner.

          (1A)  Where a reference in a law of the Commonwealth that does not specify the Australian Capital Territory is, in effect, a reference to, or a reference that includes, that Territory, that reference shall, for the purposes of subsection (1), be taken to be a reference to that Territory.

             (2)  If:

                     (a)  a provision of a law is, by virtue of subsection (1), to be read as referring to a member of the Australian Federal Police holding a particular rank; and

                     (b)  a declaration is in force under subsection (3) that a member is of that rank for the purposes of this paragraph;

the provision of the law is to be read as referring to the member to whom the declaration applies.

             (3)  The Commissioner may, by writing, declare that a member is of a particular rank for the purposes of paragraph (2)(b).