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COMMONWEALTH PLACES (APPLICATION OF LAWS) ACT 1970 - SECT 5 Application of certain provisions of Commonwealth Acts to applied provisions

COMMONWEALTH PLACES (APPLICATION OF LAWS) ACT 1970 - SECT 5

Application of certain provisions of Commonwealth Acts to applied provisions

  (1)   The Acts Interpretation Act 1901 does not apply in relation to the applied provisions.

  (2)   Sections   4A, 4AA, 4AB, 4B, 4D to 4K (inclusive) and 6 of the Crimes Act 1914 do not apply in relation to, or in relation to matters arising under, the applied provisions.

  (2A)   Part   IC of the Crimes Act 1914 does not apply to a member of the police force of a State in relation to, or in relation to matters arising under, the applied provisions.

  (2B)   Chapter   2 of the Criminal Code does not apply in relation to, or in relation to matters arising under, the applied provisions.

  (3)   Where there is in force an arrangement with the Governor of a State under subsection   ( 2) of the next succeeding section, the provisions of the Acts set out in the Schedule to this Act do not apply to or in relation to matters arising under the applied provisions having effect in or in relation to a Commonwealth place in that State.

  (3A)   However, subsection   ( 3) does not prevent the application of a relevant Crimes Act provision in relation to an investigation by a member of the Australian Federal Police, or a special member, if the Commonwealth Place is a designated State airport.

  (4)   Paragraph 6(1)(e) of the Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983 applies, in relation to a State to which subsection   ( 3) applies, only to proceedings instituted under the applied provisions by:

  (a)   the Director of Public Prosecutions;

  (b)   an officer of, or a person employed by, the Commonwealth or a body established by or under an Act or by or under a law of a Territory (other than the Northern Territory ); or

  (c)   a person holding office under an Act or under a law of a Territory (other than the Northern Territory ).