Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) This Act is not intended to exclude or limit the operation of a law of a State or Territory that is capable of operating concurrently with this Act.
(2) A law of a Territory has effect to the extent to which it is not inconsistent with a provision of the regulations, or of a declaration under this Act, having effect in that Territory, but such a law shall not be taken for the purposes of this subsection to be inconsistent with such a provision to the extent that it is capable of operating concurrently with that provision.
(3) Where:
(a) a law of a State or Territory deals with a matter dealt with in this Act; and
(b) an act or omission by a person that constitutes an offence against that law also constitutes an offence against this Act or an offence referred to in paragraph 23(1)(b);
the person may be prosecuted and convicted under that law or under this Act, the Criminal Code or the Crimes Act 1914 , as the case may be, but nothing in this subsection renders a person liable to be punished more than once in respect of the same act or omission.
(4) Nothing in this Act derogates from the rights of any person to any remedy consistent with this Act that he or she would have apart from this Act.