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30  Regulations
 (1) The Governor‑General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters that are required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
 (2) For the purposes of the Legislation Act 2003, the Minister administering the Australian Federal Police Act 1979 is the rule‑maker for regulations made for the purposes of Part II (offences) of this Act.
 (3) Subsection (2) applies despite subsection 6(1) of the Legislation Act 2003.

Schedule—International Convention for the Suppression of Counterfeiting Currency
Section 3
CONVENTION

(Here appears a list of the Heads of State on behalf of whom the Convention was signed)
Being desirous of making more and more effective the prevention and punishment of counterfeiting currency, have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries:

(Here follows a list of the Plenipotentiaries of the Heads of State on behalf of whom the Convention was signed)
who, having communicated their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed on the following provisions:

PART I

Article 1
The High Contracting Parties recognise the rules laid down in Part I of this Convention as the most effective means in present circumstances for ensuring the prevention and punishment of the offence of counterfeiting currency.

Article 2
In the present Convention, the word "currency" is understood to mean paper money (including banknotes) and metallic money, the circulation of which is legally authorised.

Article 3
The following should be punishable as ordinary crimes:
      (1) Any fraudulent making or altering of currency, whatever means are employed;
      (2) The fraudulent uttering of counterfeit currency;
      (3) The introduction into a country of or the receiving or obtaining counterfeit currency with a view to uttering the same and with knowledge that it is counterfeit;
      (4) Attempts to commit, and any intentional participation in, the foregoing acts;
      (5) The fraudulent making, receiving or obtaining of instruments or other articles peculiarly adapted for the counterfeiting or altering of currency.

Article 4
Each of the acts mentioned in Article 3, if they are committed in different countries, should be considered as a distinct offence.

Article 5
No distinction should be made in the scale of punishments for offences referred to in Article 3 between acts relating to domestic currency on the one hand and to foreign currency on the other; this provision may not be made subject to any condition of reciprocal treatment by law or by treaty.

Article 6
In countries where the principle of the international recognition of previous convictions is recognised, foreign convictions for the offences referred to in Article 3 should, within the conditions prescribed by domestic law, be recognised for the purpose of