Australian Crime Commission (New South Wales) Act 2003
12Functions of federal judicial officers
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12 Functions of federal judicial officers
12 Functions of federal judicial officers
(1) In this section:
federal judicial officer means a Judge of the Federal Court or a Federal Magistrate.
(2) A function conferred on a federal judicial officer by the applied provisions is conferred on the federal judicial officer in a personal capacity and not as a court or a member of a court. The federal judicial officer need not accept the function conferred.
(3) Anything done or made by a federal judicial officer under the applied provisions has effect only by virtue of the applied provisions and is not to be taken by implication to be done or made by a court.
(4) A federal judicial officer performing a function under the applied provisions has the same protection and immunity as if he or she were performing that function as, or as a member of, a court (being the court of which the federal judicial officer is a member).
(5) A function conferred on the Federal Court by the applied provisions is taken to be conferred on a Judge of the Federal Court and subsections (2) and (4) apply to that function.