Criminal Code Act 1995

Schedule - The Criminal Code  

Section 3

CHAPTER 8 - OFFENCES AGAINST HUMANITY AND RELATED OFFENCES  

Division 273B - Protection of children  

Subdivision D - Relationship with other laws  

SECTION 273B.8  

273B.8   Relationship with State and Territory laws  
This Division applies to the exclusion of a law, or a provision of a law, of a State or Territory that has the effect of making a person liable to be prosecuted for an offence against any law for failing to:

(a) reduce or remove a risk of a child being subjected to conduct constituting a child sexual abuse offence; or

(b) disclose to a police force or a police service information relating to whether a person has engaged, or will engage, in conduct constituting a child sexual abuse offence;

to the extent that the law or provision would otherwise apply in relation to conduct in which the person engages in the person ' s capacity as a Commonwealth officer.