Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies to a participant in an operation authorised under a corresponding State controlled operations law if:
(a) the participant engages in conduct in the course of, and for the purposes of, the operation; and
(b) engaging in that conduct is a Commonwealth offence.
(2) Despite any other law of the Commonwealth, the participant is not criminally responsible for the Commonwealth offence, if:
(a) the conduct is authorised by, and is engaged in in accordance with, the authority to conduct the controlled operation; and
(b) the conduct does not involve the participant intentionally inducing a person to commit a Commonwealth offence or an offence against a law of a State or Territory that the person would not otherwise have intended to commit; and
(c) the conduct does not involve the participant engaging in any conduct that is likely to:
(i) cause the death of, or serious injury to, any person; or
(ii) involve the commission of a sexual offence against any person; and
(d) if the person is a civilian participant in the operation--he or she acts in accordance with the instructions of a law enforcement officer.
(3) Expressions used in this section have the same meanings as in the corresponding State controlled operations law under which the operation was authorised.