Crimes Act 1914
Sections and provisions with full text and the judgments that cite each one.
Section 85ZL — Interpretation of Part
In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears: AUSTRAC means the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre continued in existence by the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism…
Section 85ZZGL — Prescribed persons and bodies
Before the Governor-General makes a regulation prescribing, for the purposes of section 85ZZGI, 85ZZGJ or 85ZZGK, a person or body: (a) to which information may be disclosed; or (b) by which…
Section 85ZZL — Criminal proceedings before the Federal Court of Australia
(1) The Federal Court of Australia (and an officer of that court) may: (a) require a person to disclose information to the court, or an officer of the court, about any Commonwealth offence, State…
Section 85ZM — Meaning of conviction and spent conviction
(1) For the purposes of this Part, a person shall be taken to have been convicted of an offence if: (a) the person has been convicted, whether summarily or on indictment, of the offence; (b) the…
Section 85ZZGM — Definitions
In this Subdivision: person with disability means any of the following: (a) a person who is a participant (within the meaning of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013); (b) a person who…
Section 85N — Wrongful delivery of postal article etc.
A person shall not intentionally cause an article in the course of post to be delivered to, or received by, a person other than the person to whom it is directed or that person’s authorised agent.…
Section 85ZN — Meaning of quash
For the purposes of this Part, a person’s conviction of an offence shall be taken to have been quashed: (a) where the person was convicted of the offence—if the conviction has been quashed or set…
Section 85ZZGN — Reviews of operation of this Subdivision
(1) The Minister must cause 2 reviews of the operation of this Subdivision to be conducted. (2) The first review must be completed not later than 31 December 2019. (3) The second review must be…
Section 85ZZGO — Object of Subdivision
The object of this Subdivision is to protect individuals accessing funded aged care services from harm by permitting criminal history information to be disclosed and taken into account in assessing…
Section 85ZP — Application of Part
(1) This Part applies in relation to a person convicted of an offence whether the person was convicted before or after the commencement of this Part. (2) A reference in this Part to a person…
Section 85ZZGP — Exclusion: disclosing information to a person or body
Divisions 2 and 3 do not apply in relation to the disclosure of information to a prescribed person or body if: (a) the person or body is required or permitted by or under a prescribed Commonwealth…
Section 85Q — Forgery of postal messages etc.
(1) A person shall not forge a postal message. Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years. (2) A person shall not utter a postal message knowing it to be forged. Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years. (3) A…
Section 85ZQ — Part binds the Crown
This Part binds the Crown in right of the Commonwealth, of each of the States, of the Australian Capital Territory and of the Northern Territory.
Section 85ZZGQ — Exclusion: person or body taking information into account
Divisions 2 and 3 do not apply in relation to the taking into account of information by a prescribed person or body if: (a) the person or body is required or permitted by or under a prescribed…
Section 85R — Wrongful delivery of postal messages
A person shall not intentionally cause a postal message to be delivered to or received by a person other than the person to whom it is directed or that person’s authorised agent. Penalty:…
Section 85ZR — Pardons for persons wrongly convicted
(1) Despite any other Commonwealth law or any State law or Territory law, where a person has been granted a free and absolute pardon for a Commonwealth offence or a Territory offence because the…
Section 85ZZGR — Exclusion: person or body disclosing information
Divisions 2 and 3 do not apply in relation to the disclosure of information by a prescribed person or body if: (a) the person or body is required or permitted by or under a prescribed Commonwealth…
Section 85ZS — Effect of pardons for persons wrongly convicted
(1) Subject to Division 6, but despite any other Commonwealth law or any State law or Territory law, where, under section 85ZR, a person is, in particular circumstances or for a particular purpose,…
Section 85ZZGS — Prescribed persons and bodies
Before the Governor-General makes a regulation prescribing, for the purposes of section 85ZZGP, 85ZZGQ or 85ZZGR, a person or body: (a) to which information may be disclosed; or (b) by which…
Section 85T — Sending false postal messages
A person shall not: (a) intentionally and without a person’s authority, submit, or cause to be submitted, to Australia Post as a postal message signed or to be sent by the person, a postal message…
Section 85ZT — Quashed convictions
(1) Subject to Division 6, but despite any other Commonwealth law or any State law or Territory law, where a person’s conviction of a Commonwealth offence or a Territory offence has been quashed, the…
Section 85ZZGT — Definitions
In this Subdivision: funded aged care service has the same meaning as in the Aged Care Act 2024. work includes the following: (a) work: (i) under a contract of employment, contract of apprenticeship…
Section 85U — Obstructing carriage of articles by post
A person shall not intentionally obstruct or hinder the carriage by post of any article. Penalty: Imprisonment for 2 years.
Section 85ZU — Effect of quashed convictions
Subject to Division 6, but despite any other Commonwealth law or any State law or Territory law, where, under section 85ZT, it is lawful for a person not to disclose, in particular circumstances, or…
Section 85V — Interference with property of Australia Post
(1) A person shall not, without the authority of Australia Post, intentionally tamper or interfere with a post-box, or stamp vending machine, erected by Australia Post, or any other property…
Section 85ZV — Spent convictions
(1) Subject to Division 6, but despite any other Commonwealth law or any State law or Territory law, if a person’s conviction of a Commonwealth offence or a Territory offence is spent, the person is…
Section 85W — Causing controlled drugs or controlled plants to be carried by post
(1) A person shall not intentionally cause to be carried by post an article that consists of, encloses or contains a controlled drug, or a controlled plant, within the meaning of Part 9.1 of the…
Section 85ZW — Effect of right of non-disclosure
Subject to Division 6, but despite any other Commonwealth law, or any State law or Territory law, where, under section 85ZV, it is lawful for a person not to disclose, in particular circumstances, or…
Section 85ZX — Convictions of further Commonwealth or Territory offences
(1) Where: (a) Division 3 applies to a person in relation to an offence of which the person was convicted, or would (unless an order is made under this section) so apply to the person if the waiting…
Section 85ZY — Convictions of further State or foreign offences
Subject to subsection 85ZV(3), where: (a) Division 3 applies to a person in relation to an offence of which the person was convicted, or would so apply to the person if the waiting period for the…
Section 85Z — Articles carried by post to be taken to be Australia Post’s property
For the purpose of any prosecution for an offence in relation to an article carried by post or under the control of Australia Post, the article shall be taken to be the property of Australia Post.
Section 85ZZ — Information Commissioner’s functions
(1) The Information Commissioner has the following functions: (a) to investigate an act or practice of a person or of a Commonwealth authority or State authority that may breach Division 2 or 3 and,…
Section 86B — Simplified outline of this Part
This Part authorises collection, use and disclosure of personal information for preventing, detecting, investigating or dealing with: (a) serious misconduct by persons working for Commonwealth…
Section 86C — Target entity may collect sensitive information for integrity purpose
A target entity may collect for an integrity purpose sensitive information that: (a) if the target entity is a Privacy Act agency—is reasonably necessary for, or directly related to, one or more of…
Section 86D — Target entity may use personal information for integrity purpose
A target entity may use personal information for an integrity purpose relating to the entity.
Section 86E — Disclosure of personal information to target entity for integrity purpose
(1) This section applies if a law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory: (a) limits disclosure of some or all personal information by a person, body or authority (however described); and (b)…
Section 86F — This Part does not limit other laws
To avoid doubt, this Part does not impliedly limit other laws (whether written or unwritten) that authorise collection, use or disclosure of personal information.
Section 86G — Guidelines on the operation of this Part
(1) The Secretary of the Department may publish guidelines approved by the Information Commissioner on the operation of this Part. (2) Guidelines under subsection (1) are not a legislative instrument.
Section 87 — False certificates
Any person who, being authorized or required by a law of the Commonwealth to give any certificate touching any matter by virtue whereof the rights of any person may be harmfully affected, gives a…
Section 89 — Trespassing on Commonwealth land
(1) A person who, without lawful excuse (proof whereof shall lie upon him or her), trespasses or goes upon any prohibited Commonwealth land commits an offence. Penalty: 10 penalty units. (2) Where a…
Section 89A — Discharging firearms on or over Commonwealth land
(1) A person who, without lawful authority or excuse (proof whereof shall lie upon him or her), discharges a firearm upon or over a prohibited area commits an offence and the firearms shall be…
Section 90 — Trespass by cattle or live stock
Any person who, without lawful excuse (proof whereof shall lie upon him or her), suffers or permits any cattle or other live stock in his or her possession, custody, or control, to trespass or stray…
Section 90A — Destroying etc. posters etc. relating to Commonwealth loans
A person shall not, without lawful authority, destroy, injure, disfigure or remove a poster, advertisement or notice relating to a Commonwealth loan. Penalty: Imprisonment for 1 year.
Section 90B — False statements in documents filed etc. under laws of a Territory
A person who: (a) in a document that, under a law of a Territory, is, or is required to be, produced or furnished to, or filed or lodged with, a Commonwealth officer; or (b) in a document that is…
Section 91 — Regulations
The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed, for…