New South Wales Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN CRIME COMMISSION (NEW SOUTH WALES) ACT 2003 - SECT 15

15 Application of Commonwealth criminal laws to offences against applied provisions

(1) The relevant Commonwealth laws apply as laws of this State in relation to an offence against the applied provisions as if those provisions were a law of the Commonwealth and not a law of this State.

(2) For the purposes of a law of this State, an offence against the applied provisions:

(a) is taken to be an offence against the laws of the Commonwealth, in the same way as if those provisions were a law of the Commonwealth, and

(b) is taken not to be an offence against the laws of this State.

(3) Subsection (2) has effect for the purposes of a law of this State except as provided by the regulations under this Act.

(4) For the purposes of this section, a reference in a Commonwealth law to a provision of that or another Commonwealth law is taken to be a reference to that provision as applying because of this section.