Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Sexual conduct involving only consenting adults acting in private is not to be subject, by or under any law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory, to any arbitrary interference with privacy within the meaning of Article 17 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Note: Article 17 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is set out in Schedule 2 to the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 .
(2) For the purposes of this section, an adult is a person who is 18 years old or more.