Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557:section:12
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00557
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 12
Character Range: 77428–78535

12  Application to Crown etc.
 (1) This Act binds the Crown in each of its capacities.
 (2) This Act does not make the Crown liable to be:
 (a) prosecuted for an offence; or
 (b) subject to civil proceedings for a civil penalty for a contravention of a civil penalty provision; or
 (c) given an infringement notice.
 (3) This Act does not make an agency of the Commonwealth, or an agency of a State, liable to be:
 (a) prosecuted for an offence; or
 (b) subject to civil proceedings for a civil penalty for a contravention of a civil penalty provision; or
 (c) given an infringement notice.
 (4) Subsection (3) does not apply to the following:
 (a) an agency of the Commonwealth of the kind referred to in paragraph (g) of the definition of agency of the Commonwealth in subsection 4(1);
 (b) an agency of a State of the kind that:
 (i) is referred to in paragraph (c) of the definition of agency of a State in subsection 4(1); and
 (ii) operates primarily on a commercial basis;
 (c) an agency of a State of the kind referred to in paragraph (g) of the definition of agency of a State in subsection 4(1).