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<exdoc number="50" doc.class="reg" title="Criminal Code (Government Agencies) Regulation 2026" year="2026">
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      <no>1</no>
      <heading id="sec.1-he">Short title</heading>
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        <txt break.before="1">This regulation may be cited as the <legref check="invalid" jurisd="QLD" type="subordleg"><name emphasis="yes">Criminal Code (Government Agencies) Regulation 2026</name></legref>.</txt>
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      <heading id="sec.2-he">Commencement</heading>
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        <txt break.before="1">This regulation commences on the day the <legref check="valid" jurisd="QLD" target.doc.id="act-2025-020" type="act"><name emphasis="yes">Penalties and Sentences (Sexual Offences) and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2025</name></legref>, <legref check="invalid" jurisd="QLD" refid="sec.10" target.doc.id="act-2025-020" type="act">section 10</legref> commences.</txt>
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      <no>3</no>
      <heading id="sec.3-he">Government agencies</heading>
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        <txt break.before="1">For the <legref check="valid" jurisd="QLD" target.doc.id="act-1899-009" type="act"><name emphasis="no">Criminal Code</name></legref>, <legref check="invalid" jurisd="QLD" refid="sch.1-sec.97A" target.doc.id="act-1899-009" type="act">section 97A</legref><legref check="invalid" jurisd="QLD" refid="sec.97A-ssec.3" target.doc.id="act-1899-009" type="act">(3)</legref>, <legref check="invalid" jurisd="QLD" refid="sec.97A-ssec.3-def.governmentagency" target.doc.id="act-1899-009" type="act">definition <defterm type="mention">government agency</defterm></legref>, <legref check="invalid" jurisd="QLD" refid="sec.97A-ssec.3-def.governmentagency-para1.b" target.doc.id="act-1899-009" type="act">paragraph (b)</legref>, each of the following entities is prescribed to be a government agency—</txt>
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            <no>(a)</no>
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              <txt break.before="0">the Crime and Corruption Commission;</txt>
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          <li id="sec.3-para1.b" provision.type="other">
            <no>(b)</no>
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              <txt break.before="0">Legal Aid Queensland established under the <legref check="valid" jurisd="QLD" target.doc.id="act-1997-018" type="act"><name emphasis="yes">Legal Aid Queensland Act 1997</name></legref>;</txt>
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            <no>(c)</no>
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              <txt break.before="0">a local government;</txt>
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          <li id="sec.3-para1.d" provision.type="other">
            <no>(d)</no>
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              <txt break.before="0">the Office of the Ombudsman established under the <legref check="valid" jurisd="QLD" target.doc.id="act-2001-073" type="act"><name emphasis="yes">Ombudsman Act 2001</name></legref>;</txt>
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          <li id="sec.3-para1.e" provision.type="other">
            <no>(e)</no>
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              <txt break.before="0">the Parole Board Queensland established under the <legref check="valid" jurisd="QLD" target.doc.id="act-2006-029" type="act"><name emphasis="yes">Corrective Services Act 2006</name></legref>;</txt>
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          <li id="sec.3-para1.f" provision.type="other">
            <no>(f)</no>
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              <txt break.before="0">the Queensland Audit Office established under the <legref check="valid" jurisd="QLD" target.doc.id="act-2009-008" type="act"><name emphasis="yes">Auditor-General Act 2009</name></legref>;</txt>
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          <li id="sec.3-para1.g" provision.type="other">
            <no>(g)</no>
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              <txt break.before="0">the Supreme Court Library Committee established under the <legref check="valid" jurisd="QLD" target.doc.id="act-1968-041" type="act"><name emphasis="yes">Supreme Court Library Act 1968</name></legref>.</txt>
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