COMMONWEALTH PLACES (APPLICATION OF LAWS) ACT 1970 - SECT 14 Continuance of proceedings where place found to be a Commonwealth place
COMMONWEALTH PLACES (APPLICATION OF LAWS) ACT 1970 - SECT 14
Continuance of proceedings where place found to be a Commonwealth placeWhere a person is charged with an offence against a law of a State and the court before which he or she is charged is satisfied that:
(a) that law is inapplicable by reason of the operation of section 52 of the Constitution in relation to Commonwealth places; and
(b) a part of the applied provisions corresponds to that law;
the proceedings shall be continued as though that person had been charged with
the corresponding offence under that part of the applied provisions.