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CRIMINAL ASSETS CONFISCATION (SERIOUS OFFENCES) AMENDMENT BILL 2007

South Australia

Criminal Assets Confiscation (Serious Offences) Amendment Bill 2007

A BILL FOR

An Act to amend the Criminal Assets Confiscation Act 2005.


Contents

Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short title
2 Amendment provisions

Part 2—Amendment of Criminal Assets Confiscation Act 2005
3 Amendment of section 3—Interpretation
4 Amendment of section 10—Application of Act


The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:

Part 1—Preliminary

1—Short title

This Act may be cited as the Criminal Assets Confiscation (Serious Offences) Amendment Act 2007.

2—Amendment provisions

In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2—Amendment of Criminal Assets Confiscation Act 2005

3—Amendment of section 3—Interpretation

(1) Section 3—after the definition of foreign forfeiture order insert:

foreign offence includes an offence against international law;

(2) Section 3, definition of serious offence—after paragraph (c) insert:

or

(d) a foreign offence declared by the regulations to be within the ambit of this definition;

4—Amendment of section 10—Application of Act

Section 10(b)—delete paragraph (b) and substitute:

(b) a serious offence committed at any time whether the offence occurred—

(i) in the case of a serious offence that is a foreign offence—before or after the foreign offence was declared to be a serious offence under this Act; and

(ii) in any case—before or after the commencement of this Act,

and whether or not a person is convicted of the offence; and

 


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