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Crimes (Torture) Act 1988
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#### 5 Effect of this Act on other laws
(1) Except as provided by this section, this Act is not intended to exclude or limit the operation of any other law of the Commonwealth or any law of a State or Territory.
(2) Where any conduct by a person is both an offence against this Act and an offence against any other law referred to in subsection (1) and the person is convicted or acquitted of either of those offences, that person is not liable to be convicted of the other of those offences.
(3) Where a person has been convicted or acquitted in a country outside Australia of an offence against the law of that country in respect of any conduct, that person is not liable to be convicted of an offence against this Act in respect of that conduct.