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WATER ACT 2007 - SECT 12

Application to Crown etc.

  (1)   This Act binds the Crown in each of its capacities.

  (2)   This Act does not make the Crown liable to be:

  (a)   prosecuted for an offence; or

  (b)   subject to civil proceedings for a civil penalty for a contravention of a civil penalty provision; or

  (c)   given an infringement notice.

  (3)   This Act does not make an agency of the Commonwealth, or an agency of a State, liable to be:

  (a)   prosecuted for an offence; or

  (b)   subject to civil proceedings for a civil penalty for a contravention of a civil penalty provision; or

  (c)   given an infringement notice.

  (4)   Subsection   (3) does not apply to the following:

  (a)   an agency of the Commonwealth of the kind referred to in paragraph   (g) of the definition of agency of the Commonwealth in subsection   4(1);

  (b)   an agency of a State of the kind that:

  (i)   is referred to in paragraph   (c) of the definition of agency of a State in subsection   4(1); and

  (ii)   operates primarily on a commercial basis;

  (c)   an agency of a State of the kind referred to in paragraph   (g) of the definition of agency of a State in subsection   4(1).



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