New South Wales Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN CRIME COMMISSION (NEW SOUTH WALES) ACT 2003 - SECT 12

12 Functions of federal judicial officers

(1) In this section:

"federal judicial officer" means a Judge of the Federal Court or a Federal Magistrate.

(2) A function conferred on a federal judicial officer by the applied provisions is conferred on the federal judicial officer in a personal capacity and not as a court or a member of a court. The federal judicial officer need not accept the function conferred.

(3) Anything done or made by a federal judicial officer under the applied provisions has effect only by virtue of the applied provisions and is not to be taken by implication to be done or made by a court.

(4) A federal judicial officer performing a function under the applied provisions has the same protection and immunity as if he or she were performing that function as, or as a member of, a court (being the court of which the federal judicial officer is a member).

(5) A function conferred on the Federal Court by the applied provisions is taken to be conferred on a Judge of the Federal Court and subsections (2) and (4) apply to that function.