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CRIMINAL CODE ACT 1983 - SECT 7

Civil remedies

    (1)     Where an act is declared by the Code to be lawful, no action shall be brought in respect of that act.

    (2)     Subject to subsection (1):

        (a)     this Act does not affect a right of action that a person would have had against another person if this Act had not been passed; and

        (b)     no omission from the Code of a penal provision in respect of an act or omission that before the commencement of this Act constituted an actionable wrong affects a right of action in respect of that act or omission.



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