Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 15G

                   The main objects of this Part are:

                     (a)  to provide for the authorisation, conduct and monitoring of controlled operations ; and

                     (b)  to exempt from criminal liability, and to indemnify from civil liability:

                              (i)  law enforcement officers who, in the course of a controlled operation authorised under this Part, take an active part in, or are otherwise involved in, the commission of a Commonwealth offence or an offence against a law of a State or Territory or conduct that may result in a civil liability; and

                             (ii)  certain other persons who, in accordance with the instructions of a law enforcement officer and in the course of a controlled operation authorised under this Part, take an active part in, or are otherwise involved in, the commission of a Commonwealth offence or an offence against a law of a State or Territory or conduct that may result in a civil liability.