Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00826:section:22
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00826
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 22
Character Range: 96074–96944

22  When Acts bind Crown
 (1) This Act (other than the National Credit Code) and the Transitional Act do not bind the Crown in any of its capacities.
 (2) Despite subsection (1), the regulations may provide that this Act (other than the National Credit Code) and the Transitional Act, or specified provisions of this Act (other than the National Credit Code) or the Transitional Act, bind either or both of the following in circumstances (if any) prescribed by the regulations:
 (a) the Crown in right of the Commonwealth;
 (b) the Crown in all of its other capacities.
 (3) The National Credit Code binds the Crown in each of its capacities.
 (4) This Act and the Transitional Act do not make the Crown liable to be prosecuted for an offence or to any pecuniary penalty.

Division 3—Interaction between the Commonwealth credit legislation and State and Territory laws