Western Australian Numbered Acts

GENE TECHNOLOGY ACT 2006 (NO. 20 OF 2006) - SECT 192B

192B .         Ancillary offences (parties to offences, attempts, incitement or conspiracy)

        (1)         In this section —

        "ancillary criminal laws" means section 4, Chapters II, LVII and LVIII and section 562 of The Criminal Code.

        (2)         The ancillary criminal laws apply in relation to an offence against this Act or the regulations and —

            (a)         section 555A of The Criminal Code so applies as if the words “under this Code” in subsections (1) and (2) were deleted; and

            (b)         section 562 of The Criminal Code so applies as if the following subsection were inserted after subsection (2) —

“
        (3)         Any person who becomes an accessory after the fact to a simple offence is guilty of a simple offence and is liable to the penalty to which a person convicted of the first-mentioned offence is liable.

”.

        (3)         In this Act or the regulations, a reference to an offence against this Act or those regulations includes a reference to a related offence under the ancillary criminal laws.

        Note: This section is not required in the Commonwealth Act.