Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Commonwealth
laws apply as laws of Western Australia in relation to an offence against the
applicable provisions of Western Australia as if those provisions were laws of
the Commonwealth and were not laws of Western Australia.
(2) For the purposes
of a law of Western Australia, an offence against the applicable provisions of
Western Australia —
(a) is
taken to be an offence against the laws of the Commonwealth, in the same way
as if those provisions were laws of the Commonwealth; and
(b) is
taken not to be an offence against the laws of Western Australia.
(3)
Subsection (2) has effect for the purposes of a law of
Western Australia except as prescribed by regulations under
section 80.