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Crimes at Sea Act 1979
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##### 5 Certain Commonwealth laws excluded
(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 does not apply in relation to the provisions of the criminal laws in force in a State or Territory as applying by virtue of this Act.
(2) Nothing in subsection (1) affects the application, by virtue of this Act, of any provisions of the criminal laws in force in a Territory by reason that those provisions adopt, incorporate or otherwise apply, with or without modification, any of the provisions of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.
(3) Sections 4A, 4B, 4D to 4K (inclusive), 5, 6, 7, 7A and 86 of the Crimes Act 1914 do not apply in relation to matters arising in or in relation to a State under the provisions of the criminal laws in force in a State or Territory as applying by virtue of this Act.
(4) Where there is in force an arrangement with the Governor of a State or with the Administrator of a Territory under section 4, then:
(a) Part 1AA (other than section 3Z), and sections 9, 13, 14, 15, 15A, 15B, 15C and 15D all the provisions of Divisions 1 to 9 (inclusive) of Part 1B, sections 20C, 21B and 21E and Part 1D of the Crimes Act 1914; and
(b) sections 69, 70, 71, 71A and 72 to 76 (inclusive) of the Judiciary Act 1903;
do not apply to or in relation to matters arising in or in relation to that State or Territory under the provisions of the criminal laws in force in a State or Territory as applying by virtue of this Act.
(5) Nothing in this Act affects the operation of section 68 of the Judiciary Act 1903.