(1) This section applies to an airport - lessee company if the company was granted an airport lease under section 21.
(2) If the Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983 ceases to apply to particular acts, omissions or proceedings in connection with an airport - lessee company at the company's sale time because the company ceases to be an authority of the Commonwealth for the purposes of that Act at that time, then, despite that cessation, that Act continues to apply in relation to:
(a) acts or omissions that occurred in relation to the company before the company's sale time; and
(b) civil remedies in respect of relevant matters relating to acts or omissions referred to in paragraph ( a).
(3) In this section:
"relevant matter" has the same meaning as in the Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983 .