Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00132:section:15gq:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00132
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 15GQ (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 562853–563858

or serious injury to, any person; or
 (iii) involve the commission of a sexual offence against any person; or
 (iv) result in significant loss of, or serious damage to, property (other than illicit goods); and
 (h) that any role assigned to a civilian participant in the operation is not one that could be adequately performed by a law enforcement officer.
Note 1: Subparagraph (a)(ii) applies in relation to offences punishable on conviction by imprisonment for 12 months or more (see section 15JG).
Note 2: The target agencies mentioned in subparagraph (a)(ii) are the ACC, the Australian Federal Police and the Immigration and Border Protection Department (see section 15GC).
 (3) Despite subsection (2), an appropriate authorising officer (other than the Commissioner or a Deputy Commissioner) must not vary an authority on the authorising officer's own initiative if doing so would have the effect that the controlled operation would be a major controlled operation by virtue of paragraph 15GD(2)(a).