Purposes
1 Purposes
The main purposes of this Act are—
to provide for the authorisation, conduct and monitoring of controlled operations (including operations conducted in this and one or more other jurisdictions) for the purpose of obtaining evidence that may lead to the prosecution of persons for offences and that involve or may involve conduct for which participants in the operation would otherwise be criminally responsible; and
to facilitate mutual recognition of things done in relation to cross-border controlled operations authorised under laws of other jurisdictions corresponding to this Act; and
to provide for the indemnification of participants in authorised operations against civil liability in respect of the conduct of the operations; and
to amend the Fisheries Act 1995 and the Wildlife Act 1975 regarding controlled operations under those Acts; and
to repeal certain accomplice provisions in other Acts.
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