CRIMINAL CODE ACT 1995 - SECT 5 Regulations
CRIMINAL CODE ACT 1995 - SECT 5
Regulations(1) The Governor - General may make regulations prescribing matters:
(a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or
(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
(2) For the purposes of the Legislation Act 2003 , the Minister administering the Australian Federal Police Act 1979 is the rule - maker for regulations made for the purposes of the following provisions of the Criminal Code :
(a) Division 71 (offences against United Nations and associated personnel);
(b) Division 72 (explosives and lethal devices);
(c) Division 73 (people smuggling and related offences);
(d) Part 5.1 (treason and related offences);
(e) Part 5.2 (espionage and related offences);
(f) Part 5.3 (terrorism), other than Division 100 (preliminary provisions);
(g) Part 5.4 (harming Australians);
(h) Part 5.5 (foreign incursions and recruitment);
(i) Division 270 (slavery and slavery - like conditions);
(j) Division 271 (trafficking in persons and debt bondage);
(k) Division 272 (child sex offences outside Australia);
(l) Division 273 (offences involving child abuse material outside Australia);
(la) Division 273A (possession of child - like sex dolls etc.);
(lb) Division 273B (protection of children);
(m) Chapter 9 (dangers to the community);
(n) Chapter 10 (national infrastructure).
(3) Subsection (2) applies despite subsection 6(1)
of the Legislation Act 2003 .