Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) A provision of these Regulations, except Regulations 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12 and 13, does not apply to a State in which there is in force a law (an intercountry adoption law ) having the same effect as, or comparable effect to, that which the provision would, except for this regulation, have for the State.
(2) Nothing in these Regulations affects:
(a) the jurisdiction of a court of the Commonwealth or a State, or the power of an authority, under an intercountry adoption law to entertain proceedings, make an order or take any other action in relation to an intercountry adoption; or
(b) any such order or action; or
(c) the operation, within a State, of an intercountry adoption law of the State.