Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00989:reg:15
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00989
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 15
Character Range: 20469–22247

15  Sections 12 and 13 do not apply in certain circumstances
 (1) Sections 12 and 13 do not apply to:
 (a) a person who is involved in the transport of authorised Commonwealth explosives in a place:
 (i) that is occupied or controlled by the Defence Force or a part of the Defence Force; or
 (ii) that was declared, under repealed regulation 49 of the Defence Force Regulations 1952, to be a defence practice area; or
 (iii) that is declared, under regulations made for the purposes of the Defence Act 1903, to be a defence area; or
 (iv) where Commonwealth explosives are manufactured or tested; or
 (b) the transport, between a place that is occupied or controlled by a part of the Defence Force and a nearby place where a particular training exercise is being, or is to be, carried out by that part of the Defence Force, on a vehicle forming part of the equipment of that part of the Defence Force, of authorised Commonwealth explosives to be used for the purposes of that training exercise.
Note 1: In relation to subparagraph (1)(a)(ii): Part XI of the Defence Force Regulations 1952 continues to apply in relation to a defence practice area that was, immediately before the repeal of those regulations, declared under subregulation 49(1) of those regulations (see subsection 87(3) of the Defence Regulation 2016).
Note 2: There are also exemptions included in the AE Code (see Chapter 1 of the AE Code).
 (2) In this section:
Defence Force means:
 (a) the Australian Defence Force; or
 (b) the naval, military or air forces of another country that are in the Commonwealth or a Territory, with the approval of the Commonwealth for the purposes of, or a purpose related to, the defence of the Commonwealth.

Division 3—Transport of explosives under approved security plans