Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Organisation may perform its functions only:
(a) for purposes relating to activities that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation; or
(b) for purposes relating to trade and commerce:
(i) between Australia and places outside Australia; or
(ii) among the States; or
(iii) within a Territory, between a State and a Territory or between 2 Territories; or
(c) for purposes relating to postal, telegraphic, telephonic or other like services; or
(d) for purposes relating to the security or defence of Australia; or
(e) for purposes relating to astronomical and meteorological observations; or
(f) for purposes relating to statistics; or
(g) for purposes relating to weights and measures; or
(h) for purposes relating to copyrights, patents of inventions and designs, and trade marks; or
(i) for purposes relating to the provision of medical and dental services; or
(j) for purposes related to external affairs, including:
(i) giving effect to any international agreement to which Australia is a party; and
(ii) addressing matters of international concern; and
(iii) by way of the performance of its functions in a place outside Australia; or
(k) for purposes relating to the relations of the Commonwealth with the islands of the Pacific; or
(l) in, or for purposes relating to, a Territory; or
(m) in, or for purposes relating to, a Commonwealth place (within the meaning of the Commonwealth Places (Application of Laws) Act 1970 ); or
(n) for purposes relating to matters incidental to the execution of any of the legislative powers of the Parliament or the executive power of the Commonwealth.
(2) A term used in subsection ( 1) and the Constitution has the same meaning in that subsection as it has in the Constitution.