Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE ACT 1979 - SECT 5

  (1)   In a law of the Commonwealth or of the Australian Capital Territory:

  (a)   a reference to a Commonwealth Police Officer shall be read as a reference to a member of the Australian Federal Police;

  (b)   a reference to the Commonwealth Police Force shall be read as a reference to the Australian Federal Police;

  (c)   a reference to the Police Force of that Territory shall be read as a reference to the Australian Federal Police;

  (d)   a reference to an officer of police of that Territory shall be read as a reference to a member of the Australian Federal Police; and

  (e)   a reference to the Commissioner of Police of that Territory, however described, shall be read as a reference to the Commissioner.

  (1A)   Where a reference in a law of the Commonwealth that does not specify the Australian Capital Territory is, in effect, a reference to, or a reference that includes, that Territory, that reference shall, for the purposes of subsection   (1), be taken to be a reference to that Territory.

  (2)   If:

  (a)   a provision of a law is, by virtue of subsection   (1), to be read as referring to a member of the Australian Federal Police holding a particular rank; and

  (b)   a declaration is in force under subsection   (3) that a member is of that rank for the purposes of this paragraph;

the provision of the law is to be read as referring to the member to whom the declaration applies.

  (3)   The Commissioner may, by writing, declare that a member is of a particular rank for the purposes of paragraph   (2)(b).