New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN EMBRYOS (NEW SOUTH WALES) ACT 2003 - SECT 10

10 Object of this Part

(1) The object of this Part is to further the object of this Act by providing for an offence against the applied provisions to be treated as if it were an offence against a law of the Commonwealth.

(2) The purposes for which an offence is to be treated as mentioned in subsection (1) include, for example (but are not limited to):

(a) the investigation and prosecution of offences, and

(b) the arrest, custody, bail, trial and conviction of offenders or persons charged with offences, and

(c) proceedings relating to a matter referred to in paragraph (a) or (b), and

(d) appeals and reviews relating to criminal proceedings and to proceedings of the kind referred to in paragraph (c), and

(e) the sentencing, punishment and release of persons convicted of offences, and

(f) fines, penalties and forfeitures, and

(g) liability to make reparation in connection with offences, and

(h) proceeds of crime, and

(i) spent convictions.