Contents

1............ Short title [see Note 1] ....................................................................... 1

2............ Commencement [see Notes 1 and 2] .................................................. 1

3............ Interpretation ...................................................................................... 1

4............ Application of laws in Commonwealth places ................................... 2

5............ Certain provisions not to apply to applied provisions ...................... 4

6............ Arrangements with States ................................................................... 5

7............ Jurisdiction of State courts ................................................................. 6

8............ Conditions subject to which State courts are invested with federal jurisdiction      6

9............ Causes of action .................................................................................. 7

10.......... Validation of certain acts .................................................................... 7

11.......... Form of instruments ........................................................................... 7

12.......... Procedure in proceedings under the applied provisions ..................... 8

13.......... Objection not allowable where two offences charged ......................... 8

14.......... Continuance of proceedings where place found to be a Commonwealth place        8

15.......... Proceedings on certain appeals ........................................................... 9

16.......... Exceptions to appellate jurisdiction of High Court ............................ 9

17.......... Certificates as to ownership of land ................................................... 9

18.......... Grant of pardon, remission etc. ........................................................ 10

19.......... Savings .............................................................................................. 10

20.......... Certain payments to be made by Commonwealth to States ............ 11

21.......... Financial Management and Accountability Act not to apply to certain receipts     12

22.......... Regulations ....................................................................................... 12

The Schedule--Inapplicable provisions of certain Acts                                   13

Notes                                                                                                                                             15

An Act relating to the application and administration of laws in places acquired by the Commonwealth for public purposes

 

 

Notes to the Commonwealth Places (Application of Laws) Act 1970

Note 1

The Commonwealth Places (Application of Laws) Act 1970 as shown in this compilation comprises Act No. 121, 1970 amended as indicated in the Tables below.

All relevant information pertaining to application, saving or transitional provisions prior to 24 November 2000 is not included in this compilation. For subsequent information see Table A.

Table of Acts

Act	Number and year	Date of Assent	Date of commencement	Application, saving or transitional provisions
Commonwealth Places (Application of Laws) Act 1970	121, 1970	11 Nov 1970	11 Nov 1970
Statute Law Revision Act 1973	216, 1973	19 Dec 1973	31 Dec 1973	Ss. 9(1) and 10
Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act (No.2) 1982	80, 1982	22 Sept 1982	Part XVII (ss. 45, 46): 16 Dec 1985 (a)	--
Director of Public Prosecutions (Consequential Amendments) Act 1983	114, 1983	14 Dec 1983	S. 8: 16 Dec 1985 (see s. 2(2) and (3)) Remainder: 5 Mar 1984 (see s. 2(1) and Gazette 1984, No. S55)	--
Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 2) 1984	165, 1984	25 Oct 1984	S. 3: 22 Nov 1984 (b)	S. 6(1)
Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 2) 1986	168, 1986	18 Dec 1986	S. 3: Royal Assent (c)	S. 5(1)
Law and Justice Legislation Amendment Act 1988	120, 1988	14 Dec 1988	S. 20: 21 Dec 1989 (see Gazette 1989, No. S384) Ss. 21-24, 70 and 71: 1 Mar 1989 (see s. 2(2) and Gazette 1989, No. S54) Ss. 25-27: 15 June 1985 Ss. 28-31, 48-50, 54-56, 58-61, 63, 64, 66-69: 11 Jan 1989 (see s. 2(3)) Ss. 32 and 33: 1 Dec 1988 (see s. 2(5)) Ss. 34 and 35: 5 Apr 1988 Ss. 45 and 46: 1 Dec 1988 (see s. 2(7) and (8)) Ss. 47, 51-53, 57, 62 and 65: 5 Sept 1989 (see Gazette 1989, No. S296) Remainder: 14 Dec 1988	--
Lands Acquisition (Repeal and Consequential Provisions) Act 1989	21, 1989	20 Apr 1989	9 June 1989 (see s. 2 and Gazette 1989, No. S185)	S. 13
Crimes Legislation Amendment Act (No. 2) 1989	4, 1990	17 Jan 1990	S. 34: 17 July 1990 (d)	--
Law and Justice Legislation Amendment Act 1992	22, 1992	13 Apr 1992	(e)	--
Crimes Legislation Amendment Act 1992	164, 1992	11 Dec 1992	Ss. 1, 2 and 18-53: 8 Jan 1993 Remainder: 1 Feb 1993 (see Gazette 1993, No. GN1)	--
Crimes (Search Warrants and Powers of Arrest) Amendment Act 1994	65, 1994	30 May 1994	30 Nov 1994	--
Statute Law Revision Act 1996	43, 1996	25 Oct 1996	Schedule 5 (item 41): Royal Assent (f)	--
Audit (Transitional and Miscellaneous) Amendment Act 1997	152, 1997	24 Oct 1997	Schedule 2 (item 635): 1 Jan 1998 (see Gazette 1997, GN49) (g)	--
Commonwealth Places (Consequential Amendments) Act 1998	23, 1998	17 Apr 1998	17 Apr 1998	--
Crimes Amendment (Forensic Procedures) Act 1998	96, 1998	23 July 1998	Schedule 3 (item 1): 23 Jan 1999 (h)	--
Criminal Code Amendment (Theft, Fraud, Bribery and Related Offences) Act 2000	137, 2000	24 Nov 2000	Ss. 1-3 and Schedule 1 (items 1, 4, 6, 7, 9-11, 32): Royal Assent Remainder: 24 May 2001	Sch. 2 (items 418, 419) [see Table A]
Law and Justice Legislation Amendment (Application of Criminal Code) Act 2001	24, 2001	6 Apr 2001	S. 4(1) and (2): (i) Schedule 51 (items 1-3): 15 Dec 2001 (i)	S. 4(1) and (2) [see Table A]
Crimes Legislation Enhancement Act 2003	41, 2003	3 June 2003	Schedule 3 (items 1, 7, 36, 42): Royal Assent Schedule 3 (item 15): (j)	Sch. 3 (item 42) [see Table A]
Judiciary Legislation Amendment Act 2006	151, 2006	7 Dec 2006	7 Dec 2006	--

(a)     The Commonwealth Places (Application of Laws) Act 1970 was amended by Part XVII (sections 45 and 46) only of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act (No. 2) 1982, subsection 2(6) of which provides as follows:

                 (6)    Part XVII, Division 2 of Part XVIII and Parts XXII, XXIII and LXIV shall come into operation, or shall be deemed to have come into operation, as the case requires, immediately after the commencement of section 8 of the Crimes Amendment Act 1982.

(b)    The Commonwealth Places (Application of Laws) Act 1970 was amended by section 3 only of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 2) 1984, subsection 2(1) of which provides as follows:

                 (1)   Subject to this section, this Act shall come into operation on the twenty‑eighth day after the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

(c)     The Commonwealth Places (Application of Laws) Act 1970 was amended by section 3 only of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 2) 1986, subsection 2(1) of which provides as follows:

                 (1)   Subject to this section, this Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

(d)     The Commonwealth Places (Application of Laws) Act 1990 was amended by section 34 only of the Crimes Legislation Amendment Act (No. 2) 1989, subsection 2(14) of which provides as follows:

               (14)   If a provision referred to in subsection (13) does not commence under that subsection within the period of 6 months beginning on the day it receives the Royal Assent, it commences on the first day after the end of that period.

(e)     Section 2 of the Law and Justice Legislation Amendment Act 1992 provides as follows:

                 (1)   Subject to this section this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

                 (2)   The amendment of the Commonwealth Places (Application of Laws) Act 1970 made by this Act is taken to have commenced on 1 November 1991.

(f)      The Commonwealth Places (Application of Laws) Act 1970 was amended by Schedule 5 (item 41) only of the Statute Law Revision Act 1996, subsection 2(1) of which provides as follows:

                 (1)   Subject to subsections (2) and (3), this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

(g)     The Commonwealth Places (Application of Laws) Act 1970 was amended by Schedule 2 (item 635) only of the Audit (Transitional and Miscellaneous) Amendment Act 1997, subsection 2(2) of which provides as follows:

                 (2)   Schedules 1, 2 and 4 commence on the same day as the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997.

(h)     The Commonwealth Places (Application of Laws) Act 1970 was amended by Schedule 3 (item 1) only of the Crimes Amendment (Forensic Procedures) Act 1998., subsection 2(4) of which provides as follows:

                 (4)   If the provisions specified in subsection (3) have not commenced under that subsection within the period of 6 months beginning on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, those provisions commence on the first day after the end of that period.

(i)      The Commonwealth Places (Application of Laws) Act 1970 was amended by Schedule 51 (items 1-3) only of the Law and Justice Legislation Amendment (Application of Criminal Code) Act 2001, subsections 2(1)(a) and (3) of which provide as follows:

                 (1)   Subject to this section, this Act commences at the later of the following times:

                              (a)   immediately after the commencement of item 15 of Schedule 1 to the Criminal Code Amendment (Theft, Fraud, Bribery and Related Offences) Act 2000;

                 (3)   Schedules 21 and 51 commence on the day mentioned in subsection 2.2(2) of the Criminal Code.

         Item 15 commenced on 24 May 2001.

(j)      The Commonwealth Places (Application of Laws) Act 1970 was amended by the Crimes Legislation Enhancement Act 2003, subsection 2(1) (item 16) of which provides as follows:

                 (1)   Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, on the day or at the time specified in column 2 of the table.

 

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provision(s)	Commencement	Date/Details
16.  Schedule 3, item 15	Immediately after the amendment of the Commonwealth Places (Application of Laws) Act 1970 by the Law and Justice Legislation Amendment Act 1992 is taken to have commenced	1 November 1991

Table of Amendments

ad. = added or inserted     am. = amended     rep. = repealed     rs. = repealed and substituted
Provision affected	How affected
S. 4......................................	am. No. 23, 1998
S. 5......................................	am. No. 168, 1986; No. 120, 1988; Nos. 22 and 164, 1992; No. 137, 2000; No. 24, 2001; No. 41, 2003
S. 8......................................	am. No. 151, 2006
S. 14....................................	am. No. 43, 1996
Ss. 15, 16............................	am. No. 216, 1973
S. 17....................................	am. No. 21, 1989
Heading to s. 21..................	am. No. 152, 1997
S. 21....................................	am. No. 152, 1997
Schedule.............................	am. No. 80, 1982; No. 114, 1983; No. 165, 1984 ;No.168, 1986; No. 4, 1990; No. 65, 1994; No. 96, 1998; No. 24, 2001; No. 41, 2003

Note 2

Subsection 2(2)--This Act came into effect in all States from and including 30 November 1970 (see Gazette 1970, p. 7941).

Table A

Application, saving or transitional provisions

Criminal Code Amendment (Theft, Fraud, Bribery and Related Offences) Act 2000 (No. 137, 2000)

Schedule 2

418  Transitional--pre‑commencement offences

(1)        Despite the amendment or repeal of a provision by this Schedule, that provision continues to apply, after the commencement of this item, in relation to:

                     (a)  an offence committed before the commencement of this item; or

                     (b)  proceedings for an offence alleged to have been committed before the commencement of this item; or

                     (c)  any matter connected with, or arising out of, such proceedings;

as if the amendment or repeal had not been made.

(2)        Subitem (1) does not limit the operation of section 8 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.

419  Transitional--pre‑commencement notices

If:

                     (a)  a provision in force immediately before the commencement of this item required that a notice set out the effect of one or more other provisions; and

                     (b)  any or all of those other provisions are repealed by this Schedule; and

                     (c)  the first‑mentioned provision is amended by this Schedule;

the amendment of the first‑mentioned provision by this Schedule does not affect the validity of such a notice that was given before the commencement of this item.

Law and Justice Legislation Amendment (Application of Criminal Code) Act 2001 (No. 24, 2001)

4  Application of amendments

             (1)  Subject to subsection (3), each amendment made by this Act applies to acts and omissions that take place after the amendment commences.

             (2)  For the purposes of this section, if an act or omission is alleged to have taken place between 2 dates, one before and one on or after the day on which a particular amendment commences, the act or omission is alleged to have taken place before the amendment commences.

Crimes Legislation Enhancement Act 2003 (No. 41, 2003)

Schedule 3

42  Saving provision

(1)        The amendments made by this Schedule do not invalidate:

                     (a)  an instrument made under, or referring to, a Part of the Crimes Act 1914 whose heading is repealed and substituted by this Schedule; or

                     (b)  anything done under such an instrument or such a Part.

(2)        Subitem (1) has effect whether the instrument was made, or the thing was done, before or after this Act received the Royal Assent.