Crimes (Assumed Identities) Act 2009

This section applies if an authorised person engages in conduct (in the ACT or elsewhere) that would, apart from this section, be an offence.

Despite any other territory law, the person is not criminally responsible for the offence if—

the conduct is engaged in in the course of—

acquiring an assumed identity in accordance with an authority; or

using an assumed identity in accordance with an authority or for a controlled operation; and

the conduct is engaged in—

for an authorised officer—in the course of the officer’s duty; or

for an authorised civilian—in accordance with any direction by the civilian’s supervisor under the authority; and

engaging in the conduct would not be an offence if the assumed identity were the person’s real identity.