Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth)

This download includes Criminal Code Act 1995 so there are no mapped questions. Use this download if you just want the provisions and you want to create your own question set. The Criminal Code Act 1995 is the legislation relating to commonwealth (federal) criminal offences in Australia, the crimes committed across the nation.

  Regulations:

             (1) The Governor‑General may make regulations prescribing matters:

                     (a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

                     (b) 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 the following provisions of the Criminal Code:

                     (a) Division 71 (offences against United Nations and associated personnel);

                     (b) Division 72 (explosives and lethal devices);

                     (c) Division 73 (people smuggling and related offences);

                     (d) Part 5.1 (treason and related offences);

                     (e) Part 5.2 (espionage and related offences);

                      (f) Part 5.3 (terrorism), other than Division 100 (preliminary provisions);

                     (g) Part 5.4 (harming Australians);

                     (h) Part 5.5 (foreign incursions and recruitment);

                      (i) Division 270 (slavery and slavery‑like conditions);

                      (j) Division 271 (trafficking in persons and debt bondage);

                     (k) Division 272 (child sex offences outside Australia);

                      (l) Division 273 (offences involving child abuse material outside Australia);

                    (la) Division 273A (possession of child‑like sex dolls etc.);

                    (lb) Division 273B (protection of children);

                    (m) Chapter 9 (dangers to the community);

                     (n) Chapter 10 (national infrastructure).

             (3) Subsection (2) applies despite subsection 6(1) of the Legislation Act 2003.