Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIME AND CORRUPTION ACT 2001 - SECT 5

5 How Act’s purposes are to be achieved

(1) The Act ’s purposes are to be achieved primarily by establishing a permanent commission to be called the Crime and Corruption Commission.

(2) The commission is to have investigative powers, not ordinarily available to the police service, that will enable the commission to effectively investigate major crime and criminal organisations and their participants.

(3) Also, the commission is to—

(a) investigate cases of corrupt conduct, particularly more serious cases of corrupt conduct; and

(b) help units of public administration to deal effectively and appropriately with corruption by increasing their capacity to do so.

(4) Further, the commission has particular powers for confiscation related investigations for supporting its role under the Confiscation Act .