Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 15G

    The main objects of this Part are:

  (a)   to provide for the authorisation, conduct and monitoring of controlled operations; and

  (b)   to exempt from criminal liability, and to indemnify from civil liability:

  (i)   law enforcement officers who, in the course of a controlled operation authorised under this Part, take an active part   in, or are otherwise involved in, the commission of a Commonwealth offence or an offence against a law of a State or Territory or conduct that may result in a civil liability; and

  (ii)   certain other persons who, in accordance with the instructions of a law enforcement officer and in the course of a controlled operation authorised under this Part, take an active part   in, or are otherwise involved in, the commission of a Commonwealth offence or an offence against a law of a State or Territory or conduct that may result in a civil liability.