Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to the succeeding provisions of this section:
(a) the several courts of the States are invested with federal jurisdiction; and
(b) jurisdiction is conferred on the several courts of the Territories,
with respect to offences against this Act.
(2) The jurisdiction invested in or conferred on courts by the last preceding subsection is invested or conferred within the limits (other than limits having effect by reference to the places at which offences are committed) of their several jurisdictions, whether those limits are as to subject - matter or otherwise, but subject to the conditions and restrictions specified in paragraphs ( a), (b) and (c) of subsection ( 2) of section thirty - nine of the Judiciary Act 1903 - 1960 .
(3) The jurisdiction invested in, or conferred on, a court of summary jurisdiction by this section shall not be judicially exercised except by a Chief, Police, Stipendiary, Resident or Special Magistrate.
(4) The trial on indictment of an offence against this Act, not being an offence committed within a State, may be held in any State or in any Territory.
(5) Subject to this Act, the laws of a State or Territory with respect to the arrest and custody of offenders or persons charged with offences and the procedure for:
(a) their summary conviction;
(b) their examination and commitment for trial on indictment;
(c) their trial and conviction on indictment; and
(d) the hearing and determination of appeals arising out of any such trial or conviction or out of any proceedings connected therewith,
and for holding accused persons to bail apply, so far as they are applicable, to a person who is charged in that State or Territory with an offence against this Act.
(6) Except as provided by this section, the Judiciary Act 1903 - 1960 applies in relation to offences against this Act.