Crime and Corruption Act 2001
An Act to provide for the establishment and operation of a Crime and Corruption Commission, and a Parliamentary Crime and Corruption Committee, and for other purposes
Chapter 1 Preliminary
Part 1 Introduction
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Crime and Corruption Act 2001.
2 Commencement
This Act commences on a day to be fixed by proclamation.
3 Act binds all persons
(1)This Act binds all persons, including the State, and, so far as the legislative power of the Parliament permits, the Commonwealth and the other States.(2)Subsection (1) does not make the State, the Commonwealth or another State liable to be prosecuted for an offence.
Part 2 Purpose
4 Act’s purposes
(1)The main purposes of this Act are—(a)to combat and reduce the incidence of major crime; and(b)to continuously improve the integrity of, and to reduce the incidence of corruption in, the public sector.(2)The Act also has as the purpose to facilitate the commission’s involvement in a confiscation related investigation.
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.
Part 3 Overview
6 Purpose of pt 3
The purpose of this part is to briefly outline the responsibilities of relevant entities under this Act.
7 Crime and Corruption Commission
The Crime and Corruption Commission has primary responsibility for the achievement of the Act’s purposes.
8 Crime Reference Committee
The Crime Reference Committee—(a)has responsibility for—(i)referring major crime to the commission for investigation; and(ii)authorising the commission to undertake specific intelligence operations; and(b)has a coordinating role for investigations into major crime conducted by the commission in cooperation with any other law enforcement agency.
9 Parliamentary Crime and Corruption Committee
The Parliamentary Crime and Corruption Committee is a standing committee of the Legislative Assembly with particular responsibility for monitoring and reviewing the commission’s performance.
10 Parliamentary Crime and Corruption Commissioner
The Parliamentary Crime and Corruption Commissioner is an officer of the Parliament who helps the Parliamentary Crime and Corruption Committee in the performance of its functions.
11 Public Interest Monitor
The Public Interest Monitor has a right of appearance before a court hearing an application by the commission for a surveillance warrant or covert search warrant and is entitled to test the appropriateness and validity of the application…