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CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 15KQ

Protection from criminal liability--authorised persons

    If an authorised person does something that, apart from this section, would be a Commonwealth offence or an offence under a law of a State or Territory, the person is not criminally responsible for the offence if:

  (a)   the thing is done in the course of acquiring or using an assumed identity in accordance with an authority; and

  (b)   the thing is done:

  (i)   in the case of an authorised intelligence officer, an authorised law enforcement officer or an authorised foreign officer--in the course of his or her duty; or

  (ii)   in the case of an authorised civilian--in accordance with any direction by his or her supervisor under the authority; and

  (c)   doing the thing would not be an offence if the assumed identity were the person's real identity.


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