(1) The * Compliance Committee, or a member of the Compliance Committee acting as such a member, is not to be taken:
(a) to be the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth authority; or
(b) to be established for a public purpose or for a purpose of the Commonwealth; or
(c) to hold a Commonwealth office or to be a Commonwealth officer; or
(d) to be a public authority or an agency or instrumentality of the Crown;
(within the ordinary meaning of the expression concerned) for the purposes of a law unless a law, or regulations for the purposes of this section, expressly provide otherwise.
(2) In this section:
"law" means:
(a) an Act of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory; or
(b) regulations or any other instrument made under such an Act.