Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING AND COUNTER-TERRORISM FINANCING ACT 2006 - SECT 160

Functions conferred personally

  (1)   The functions conferred on a magistrate by section   159 are conferred on the magistrate:

  (a)   in a personal capacity; and

  (b)   not as a court or a member of a court.

Functions need not be accepted

  (2)   The magistrate need not accept the functions conferred.

Protection and immunity

  (3)   A magistrate performing a function conferred by section   159 has the same protection and immunity as if he or she were performing the function:

  (a)   as the court of which the magistrate is a member; or

  (b)   as a member of the court of which the magistrate is a member.