Division 16 Miscellaneous

The Attorney-General’s consent is required where a prosecution is in reliance on Part 2.7 and the alleged offence occurs wholly in a foreign country and the person charged or to be charged is not of Australian nationality or, if a body corporate, the body corporate is not incorporated under a law of the Commonwealth, or of a State or Territory.

This provision is directed to the situation where a thing is sent to or from Australia. If a person, while outside Australia, sends a thing to Australia.

‘Australia’ when used in a geographical sense may be given different meanings in different statutes.

A reference to a result of conduct is a reference to a result in the sense of a physical element of an offence as provided in ss4.1(1): 4.1 Physical elements.