COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA CONSTITUTION ACT - CLAUSE 5 Operation of the Constitution and laws.
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA CONSTITUTION ACT - CLAUSE 5
Operation of the Constitution and laws. This Act, and all laws made by the Parliament of the
Commonwealth under the Constitution, shall be binding on the courts, judges,
and people of every State and of every part of the Commonwealth,
notwithstanding anything in the laws of any State; and the laws of the
Commonwealth shall be in force on all British ships, the Queen's ships of
war excepted, whose first port of clearance and whose port of destination are
in the Commonwealth.