Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL CODE ACT 1995 - SECT 5

  (1)   The Governor - General may make regulations prescribing matters:

  (a)   required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

  (b)   necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

  (2)   For the purposes of the Legislation Act 2003 , the Minister administering the Australian Federal Police Act 1979 is the rule - maker for regulations made for the purposes of the following provisions of the Criminal Code :

  (a)   Division   71 (offences against United Nations and associated personnel);

  (b)   Division   72 (explosives and lethal devices);

  (c)   Division   73 (people smuggling and related offences);

  (d)   Part   5.1 (treason and related offences);

  (e)   Part   5.2 (espionage and related offences);

  (f)   Part   5.3 (terrorism), other than Division   100 (preliminary provisions);

  (g)   Part   5.4 (harming Australians);

  (h)   Part   5.5 (foreign incursions and recruitment);

  (i)   Division   270 (slavery and slavery - like conditions);

  (j)   Division   271 (trafficking in persons and debt bondage);

  (k)   Division   272 (child sex offences outside Australia);

  (l)   Division   273 (offences involving child abuse material outside Australia);

  (la)   Division   273A (possession of child - like sex dolls etc.);

  (lb)   Division   273B (protection of children);

  (m)   Chapter   9 (dangers to the community);

  (n)   Chapter   10 (national infrastructure).

  (3)   Subsection   (2) applies despite subsection   6(1) of the Legislation Act 2003 .