New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIME COMMISSION ACT 2012 - SECT 5

5 Meaning of "relevant offence"

(1) In this Act--

"relevant offence" means an offence that is punishable by imprisonment for life or for a term of 3 or more years (other than an offence the time for the commencement of a prosecution for which has expired).

(2) For the purposes of this Act, an offence that is not a relevant offence but that the Commission suspects may be directly or indirectly connected with, or may be a part of, a course of activity involving the commission of a relevant offence (whether or not the Commission has identified the nature of that relevant offence), is, for so long as the Commission so suspects, taken to be a relevant offence.