Crimes (Confiscation of Profits) (General) Amendment Regulations 1998 (WA)

20 February 19981 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 939

PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS

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CRIMES (CONFISCATION OF PROFITS) ACT 1988
CRIMES (CONFISCATION OF PROFITS) (GENERAL) AMENDMENT
REGULATIONS 1998

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation

1.These regulations may be cited as the Crimes (Confiscation of Profits) (General) Amend-

ment Regulations 1998.
Regulations 4 and 5 inserted

2.After regulation 3 of the Crimes (Confiscation of Profits) (General) Regulations 1994*

the following regulations are inserted —

Certain indictable offences prescribed as serious offences

4. For the purposes of the definition of "serious offence" in section 3 (1) of the Act (and without limiting paragraph (a) of that definition), an indictable offence against the laws of Western Australia of which a person is summarily convicted is a seri- ous offence.

Certain indictable offences prescribed as serious drug offences

5. For the purposes of the definition of "serious drug offence" in section 3 (1) of the Act (and without limiting paragraph (a) of that definition), an offence against section 6 (1) or 7 (1) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1981 of which a person is summar- ily convicted is a serious drug offence.

[* Published in Gazette 31 March 1994, pp. 1441-2.1

By Command of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.