Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C00956:section:4:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C00956
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 4 (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 5776–8160

4  Application of laws in Commonwealth places
 (1) The provisions of the laws of a State as in force at a time (whether before or after the commencement of this Act) apply, or shall be deemed to have applied, in accordance with their tenor, at that time in and in relation to each place in that State that is or was a Commonwealth place at that time.
 (1A) Subsection (1) does not apply to the provisions of the laws of a State to the extent that those provisions have effect, as laws of the Commonwealth, under the Commonwealth Places (Mirror Taxes) Act 1998.
 (2) This section does not:
 (a) extend to the provisions of a law of a State to the extent that, if that law applied, or had applied, in or in relation to a Commonwealth place, it would be, or have been, invalid or inoperative in its application in or in relation to that Commonwealth place otherwise than by reason of the operation of section 52 of the Constitution in relation to Commonwealth places; or
 (b) operate so as to make applicable the provisions of a law of a State in or in relation to a Commonwealth place if that law would not apply, or would not have applied, in or in relation to that place if it were not, or had not been, a Commonwealth place.
 (3) To the extent that the laws of a State would, but for subsection (1) of this section, have, or have had, the same effect, at a particular time, with respect to an act, matter or thing having a connexion with a place in that State that is, or was, at that time, a Commonwealth place as they would have, or would have had, at that time, if the act, matter or thing did not have such a connexion, that subsection does not have effect with respect to the provisions of those laws.
 (4) In so far as a law of a State has effect in another State, subsection (1) of this section operates to make the provisions of that law applicable in or in relation to a Commonwealth place in that other State.
 (5) Subsection (1) of this section does not:
 (a) have effect so as to impose any tax;
 (b) have effect so as to confer any judicial power; or
 (c) extend to the provisions of any law of a State in so far as it is not within the authority of the Parliament to make those provisions applicable in or in relation to a Commonwealth place.
 (6) The regulations may provide that such of the provisions referred to in subsection (1) of this section as are specified in