Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00156:section:5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00156
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Provision Reference: s 5
Character Range: 35971–37500

5  References in other laws
 (1) In a law of the Commonwealth or of the Australian Capital Territory:
 (a) a reference to a Commonwealth Police Officer shall be read as a reference to a member of the Australian Federal Police;
 (b) a reference to the Commonwealth Police Force shall be read as a reference to the Australian Federal Police;
 (c) a reference to the Police Force of that Territory shall be read as a reference to the Australian Federal Police;
 (d) a reference to an officer of police of that Territory shall be read as a reference to a member of the Australian Federal Police; and
 (e) a reference to the Commissioner of Police of that Territory, however described, shall be read as a reference to the Commissioner.
 (1A) Where a reference in a law of the Commonwealth that does not specify the Australian Capital Territory is, in effect, a reference to, or a reference that includes, that Territory, that reference shall, for the purposes of subsection (1), be taken to be a reference to that Territory.
 (2) If:
 (a) a provision of a law is, by virtue of subsection (1), to be read as referring to a member of the Australian Federal Police holding a particular rank; and
 (b) a declaration is in force under subsection (3) that a member is of that rank for the purposes of this paragraph;
the provision of the law is to be read as referring to the member to whom the declaration applies.
 (3) The Commissioner may, by writing, declare that a member is of a particular rank for the purposes of paragraph (2)(b).