Criminal Code Act 1995

SECTION 5   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);

(fa)    

Subdivisions A and B of Division 110 (state sponsors of terrorism);

(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 .