Lawfulness of certain ancillary activities
18 Lawfulness of certain ancillary activities
Despite any other Act or law, an activity that is engaged in by a person—
in connection with a controlled activity, or
in connection with an activity referred to in section 17(1)(a), (b) or (c),
is not unlawful, and does not constitute an offence or corrupt conduct, so long as it is engaged in (whether by a participant in an authorised operation or otherwise) in the course of, and for the purposes of, an authorised operation.
This section applies to an activity that (but for this section) would be unlawful because (ignoring the operation of sections 16 and 17) the activity in connection with which it is engaged in is unlawful (such as an activity that would otherwise give rise to the offence of aiding and abetting the commission of an offence or of conspiring to commit an offence), and does not apply to any other activity.
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