Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CRIMES LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1991 No. 123 of 1991 - SECT 4

4. Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended:
(a) by omitting from subsection (1) "The functions" and substituting "Subject
to subsection (2C), the functions";

   (b)  by omitting from subsection (2A) "for the protection of witnesses,
        and," and substituting "for the protection, in the circumstances and
        subject to the conditions specified in the arrangements, of such of
        the following as are so specified:

   (e)  witnesses;

   (f)  people who, because of their relationship to, or association with, a
        witness need, or may need, such protection;

   (g)  any other people who, for any other reason, need, or may need, such
        protection; and,";

   (c)  by inserting after subsection (2B) the following subsection:

"(2C) The functions of the Australian Federal Police do not include the
provision of services under arrangements entered into under subsection (2A) in
relation to offences against a law of a State, unless the provision of such
services in relation to those offences is authorised to the extent necessary,
whether by enactment or otherwise:

   (a)  by that State; or

   (b)  if that State is different from the State in which the services are
        provided - by both of those States.".