Crimes Legislation Enhancement Act 2003 (Cth)
This compilation was prepared on 4 April 2006
[Schedule 2 (item 15) added item 6NA to Schedule 2
Schedule 2 (item 15) commenced on 3 June 2003]
Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting and Publishing,
Attorney‑General’s Department, Canberra
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the
Crimes Legislation Enhancement Act 2003 .
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, on the day or at the time specified in column 2 of the table.
Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent | 3 June 2003 |
Schedule 1, items 1 to 7 | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent | 3 June 2003 |
Schedule 1, item 7A | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent | 3 June 2003 |
Schedule 1, items 7B to 7F | 1 March 2003 | 1 March 2003 |
Schedule 1, item 8 | Immediately after the commencement of section 6 of the | 17 July 1990 |
Schedule 1, item 9 | Immediately after the commencement of section 9 of the | 17 July 1990 |
Schedule 2, item 1AA | Immediately after the commencement of section 2 of the | 10 December 2002 |
Schedule 2, item 1 | Immediately after the commencement of the | 18 April 1995 |
Schedule 2, item 1A | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent | 3 June 2003 |
Schedule 2, items 1B to 1F | 1 January 2003 | 1 January 2003 |
Schedule 2, items 2 to 4B | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent | 3 June 2003 |
Schedule 2, items 5 and 6 | Immediately after the | 17 January 1990 |
Schedule 2, items 6A to 13 | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent | 3 June 2003 |
Schedule 2, item 14 | Immediately after the | 28 November 1994 |
Schedule 2, items 15 and 16 | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent | 3 June 2003 |
Schedule 2, items 16A to 16E | 1 January 2003 | 1 January 2003 |
Schedule 2, item 17 | Immediately after the | 28 May 1997 |
Schedule 2, items 18 to 22 | A single day to be fixed by Proclamation, subject to subsection (3) | 3 December 2003 |
Schedule 3, items 1 to 4 | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent | 3 June 2003 |
Schedule 3, item 5 | Immediately after the | 30 May 1994 |
Schedule 3, item 6 | Immediately after the | 8 July 1996 |
Schedule 3, items 7 to 14 | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent | 3 June 2003 |
Schedule 3, item 15 | Immediately after the amendment of the | 1 November 1991 |
Schedule 3, item 16 | Immediately after the commencement of the | 30 November 1994 |
18. Schedule 3, item 17 | Immediately after the commencement of the | 4 June 2001 |
Schedule 3, items 18 to 29 | Immediately after the commencement of item 1 of Schedule 1 to the | 23 January 1999 |
Schedule 3, item 30 | Immediately after the commencement of item 28 of Schedule 4 to the | 1 July 1995 |
Schedule 3, items 31 and 32 | Immediately after the commencement of the | 16 July 2000 |
Schedule 3, item 33 | Immediately after the commencement of item 1 of Schedule 1 to the | 4 May 2001 |
Schedule 3, item 34 | Immediately after the commencement of item 16 of Schedule 3 to the | 31 March 1999 |
Schedule 3, item 35 | Immediately after the commencement of item 221 of Schedule 1 to the | 23 June 2000 |
Schedule 3, items 36 to 40 | The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent | 3 June 2003 |
Schedule 3, item 41 | Immediately after the | 23 July 1998 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally passed by the Parliament and assented to. It will not be expanded to deal with provisions inserted in this Act after assent.
(2) Column 3 of the table is for additional information that is not part of this Act. This information may be included in any published version of this Act.
(3) If a provision covered by item 11A of the table does not commence within the period of 6 months beginning on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, it commences on the first day after the end of that period.
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Omit “fingerprints or”, substitute “fingerprints and/or”.
Insert:
(3A) The judge or magistrate may also make any other orders that are reasonably necessary for ensuring that the impressions of the person’s fingerprints and/or a photograph of the person are taken in accordance with the order under subsection (1). For example, the judge or magistrate may order the person to attend a specified police station at a specified time.
(3B) A person commits an offence if:
(a) the person is subject to an order under subsection (3A); and
(b) the person engages in conduct; and
(c) the person’s conduct contravenes the order.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 12 months.
(3C) In this section:
engage in conduct means:
(a) do an act; or
(b) omit to perform an act.
Repeal the paragraph, substitute:
(b) if he or she refuses to take part in the parade:
(i) evidence of the refusal may be given in later proceedings relating to an offence, for the purpose of explaining why an identification parade was not held; and
(ii) evidence may be given in such proceedings of any identification of the suspect by a witness as a result of having seen a photograph or having seen the suspect otherwise than during an identification parade; and
Omit “$500”, substitute “$5,000”.
The amendment of subsection 4J(4) of the
Crimes Act 1914 by this Schedule applies in relation to indictable offences committed after the start of the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.
Insert:
(1) A court of summary jurisdiction may hear and determine an indictable offence if:
(a) the offence is not punishable by imprisonment; and
(b) the pecuniary penalty for the offence is not more than 600 penalty units for an individual or 3,000 penalty units for a body corporate; and
(c) the defendant and prosecution consent.
(2) If the defendant is convicted, the court may impose a pecuniary penalty of:
(a) not more than 60 penalty units for an individual or 300 penalty units for a body corporate if the offence would be punishable on indictment by a pecuniary penalty of not more than 300 penalty units for an individual or 1,500 penalty units for a body corporate; or
(b) not more than 120 penalty units for an individual or 600 penalty units for a body corporate if the offence would be punishable on indictment by a pecuniary penalty of not more than 600 penalty units for an individual or 3,000 penalty units for a body corporate.
However, the court may not impose a pecuniary penalty greater than the penalty that could have been imposed if the offence had been prosecuted on indictment.
(3) This section has effect subject to any contrary intention indicated by the law creating the offence.
(4) Without limiting subsection (3), this section does not apply to an indictable offence:
(a) created by a law that provides that the offence may be heard and determined by a court of summary jurisdiction; or
(b) described in subsection 4J(4) (about offences relating to property valued at $5,000 or less).
Section 4JA of the
Crimes Act 1914 applies to proceedings for an offence that were instituted after this Act received the Royal Assent (whether the offence was committed before or after this Act received the Royal Assent).
Omit “no”, substitute “yes”.
7B
Section 23YUA (definition of corresponding law ) Repeal the definition, substitute:
corresponding law means a law that:
(a) relates to the carrying out of forensic procedures and DNA databases; and
(b) either:
(i) substantially corresponds to this Part; or
(ii) is prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition.
Repeal the definition.
Repeal the subsection, substitute:
(1) The Minister may, on behalf of the Commonwealth, enter into arrangements with a responsible Minister of a participating jurisdiction under which:
(a) information from the DNA database system of the Commonwealth that may be relevant to the investigation of a matter relating to the participating jurisdiction is to be transmitted to the appropriate authority in that jurisdiction for the purpose of the investigation of, or proceedings in respect of, that matter; and
(b) information from a DNA database system of the participating jurisdiction that may be relevant to the investigation of a matter relating to the Commonwealth is to be transmitted to the Commissioner for the purposes of the investigation of, or proceedings in respect of, that matter.
These arrangements may deal with keeping, and otherwise managing, such information.
(1A) For the avoidance of doubt, this section does not preclude CrimTrac from entering into a memorandum of understanding or other arrangement, on behalf of the Commonwealth, with a participating jurisdiction in relation to:
(a) transmission of information to or from the DNA database system of the Commonwealth, or a DNA database system of any participating jurisdiction; or
(b) keeping, and otherwise managing, such information.
Add:
(3) In this section:
CrimTrac means the CrimTrac Agency, established as an Executive Agency by the Governor‑General by order under section 65 of thePublic Service Act 1999 .
investigation of a matter means:
(a) in relation to a participating jurisdiction:
(i) an investigation of an offence against the law of that jurisdiction; or
(ii) an investigation of a missing person; or
(iii) an investigation for the purpose of identifying a deceased person; or
(b) in relation to the Commonwealth:
(i) an investigation of an offence against the law of the Commonwealth; or
(ii) an investigation of a missing person; or
(iii) an investigation for the purpose of identifying a deceased person.
7F
Transitional provision for existing arrangements under subsection 23YUD(1) An arrangement that:
(a) was entered into under subsection 23YUD(1) of the
Crimes Act 1914 before the commencement of this item; and(b) was in force immediately before this commencement;
continues in force after that commencement as if it had been entered into under that subsection as amended by this Schedule.
Omit “for the offence;”, substitute “for the offence:”.
Omit “federal”, substitute “federal,”.
Omit “
Communications Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 2002 ”, substitute “Communications Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 2003 ”.
Omit “Subject to subsection (2C), the”, substitute “The”.
1A Subsection 3(1) (at the end of the definition of police officer ) Add:
; or (c) a member, however described, of a police force of a foreign country.
Repeal the paragraph, substitute:
(b) the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Crime Commission or a member of the staff of the ACC (within the meaning of the
Australian Crime Commission Act 2002 ); or
Repeal the subparagraph.
Repeal the paragraph, substitute:
(b) the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Crime Commission or a member of the staff of the ACC (within the meaning of the
Australian Crime Commission Act 2002 ); or
Repeal the paragraph, substitute:
(b) the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Crime Commission or a member of the staff of the ACC (within the meaning of the
Australian Crime Commission Act 2002 ); or
Repeal the paragraph, substitute:
(b) the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Crime Commission or a member of the staff of the ACC (within the meaning of the
Australian Crime Commission Act 2002 ); or
Omit “law in force in the Northern Territory”, substitute “law of the Northern Territory”.
Omit “law in force in the Northern Territory”, substitute “law of the Northern Territory”.
The amendments of the
Crimes at Sea Act 2000 made by this Schedule apply in relation to conduct engaged in after the start of the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.
After “must”, insert “, unless subsection (2A) applies,”.
Insert:
(2A) Where an authorised person causes a person to be taken into custody on board an aircraft that is engaged in a flight that ends in a foreign country, the authorised person must cause the person:
(a) to be delivered into the custody of a member, however described, of a police force of that foreign country; and
(b) to be held in custody until the person can be so delivered.
Omit “a law”, substitute “the law”.
Note: This corrects a misdescribed amendment of section 19B of the
Crimes Act 1914 .
Omit “the law”, substitute “a law”.
Note: This corrects a misdescribed amendment of section 21B of the
Crimes Act 1914 .
6A Section 4 (after paragraph (a) of the definition of the appropriate Minister ) Insert:
(aa) in relation to the Australian Capital Territory, such Minister of the Australian Capital Territory as is prescribed, and includes any Minister of the Australian Capital Territory for the time being acting for and on behalf of that Minister; and
Omit “and the Northern Territory,”, substitute “the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory”.
Omit “, and of the Northern Territory”, substitute “, of the Australian Capital Territory and of the Northern Territory”.
Omit “8”, substitute “9”.
Insert:
(ba) one is to represent the Australian Capital Territory; and
Omit “or the member who is to represent the Northern Territory”, substitute “or a member who is to represent the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory”.
Omit “or of the Northern Territory”, substitute “or that Territory”.
After “Minister of a State,”, insert “of the Australian Capital Territory”.
Omit “the Northern Territory” (last occurring), substitute “that Territory”.
Insert:
(ba) in the case of the member appointed to represent the Australian Capital Territory—with the approval of the appropriate Minister of that Territory; or
Before “the Northern Territory”, insert “the Australian Capital Territory or”.
Insert:
(2A) The member of the Council who is appointed to represent the Australian Capital Territory, or the deputy of that member, may resign his or her office by writing signed by the member or deputy, as the case may be, and delivered to the appropriate Minister of the Australian Capital Territory.
Omit “and of the Northern Territory”, substitute “, of the Australian Capital Territory and of the Northern Territory”.
Note: The heading to section 43 is altered by omitting “
and Northern Territory ” and substituting “, Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory ”.
Omit “(2)”.
Omit “or the Northern Territory”, substitute “, the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory”.
Repeal the subsection, substitute:
(2) The testimony must purport to be signed or certified by a judge, magistrate or officer in or of the foreign country to which the request was made.
Repeal the definition.
Add:
(3) If the Tribunal so requests, the Magistrate conducting a proceeding under section 27 or 28 (or both) may permit examination or cross‑examination of a person giving evidence or producing a document or other article at the proceeding, by:
(a) the person to whom the proceeding before, or the investigation conducted by, the Tribunal relates; or
(b) that person’s legal representative; or
(c) the Tribunal’s legal representative;
through a video link.
(4) In this section:
video link means a video and sound system that enables persons assembled in the Tribunal’s premises (or premises nominated by the Tribunal) to see, hear and talk to persons assembled in a place in another country.
After “47A”, insert “, 47C”.
The amendment made by item 12 applies in relation to the escape of a person after the commencement of this item, whether or not the person was in custody from before that commencement or was arrested before that commencement.
After “‘court’”, insert “(wherever occurring)”.
Note: This corrects a misdescribed amendment of section 3ZN of the
Crimes Act 1914 .
Omit “to the Department or a Deputy Secretary”, substitute “of the Department or an APS employee”.
Repeal the subsections.
Insert:
(1) The powers conferred on the *Official Trustee under Division 3 may be exercised, and the duties imposed on the Official Trustee under Division 3 are to be performed, in relation to property that, under paragraph 278(2)(d), may be disposed of to pay, under Part 4‑2, a *legal aid commission’s costs.
(2) Without limiting the definition of
controlled property in section 267, for the purposes of Division 3 this property iscontrolled property .
Add:
; or (d) if, in the opinion of the Official Trustee, the disposal of the property or part of the property is necessary to pay, under Part 4‑2, a *legal aid commission’s costs.
Add:
(3) However, the person may object to the disposal of the *controlled property for the reason set out in paragraph 278(2)(d) only if:
(a) the value of the controlled property exceeds the total amount of the money payable to the
* legal aid commission in question; and(b) the person and the
* Official Trustee have failed to agree on which item or items of, or which portion of, the controlled property should be disposed of.(4) An objection to which subsection (3) applies must:
(a) relate only to which item or items of, or which portion of, the
* controlled property should be disposed of; and(b) specify the item or items of, or the portion of, the controlled property that the person does not object to the
* Official Trustee disposing of.
Insert:
(4A) The court must make an order to dispose of the *controlled property, or a specified item or items of or a specified portion of the property, if in the court’s opinion the disposal is necessary to pay, under Part 4‑2, a *legal aid commission’s costs.
16E
Section 338 (at the end of the definition of controlled property ) Add:
Note: Section 267A alters the meaning of this term for the purposes of Division 3 of Part 4‑1.
After “‘the account’”, insert “(first occurring)”.
Note: This corrects a misdescribed amendment of the
Financial Transaction Reports Act 1988 .
Add:
Note: Section 81A alters the meaning of this term for the purposes of Part 5.
19
Subsection 3(1) (at the end of the definition of tribunal ) Add:
Note: Section 81A alters the meaning of this term for the purposes of Part 5.
Before “means”, insert “(except in the definition of
authority in section 81A)”.
21
Subsection 3(1) (at the end of the definition of warrant ) Add:
Note: Section 81A alters the meaning of this term for the purposes of Part 5.
Insert:
In this Part:
authority includes a body or person that:
(a) under a law of a State, may issue a warrant for the arrest and return to custody or detention of a person, following the revocation or cancellation of:
(i) a parole order; or
(ii) an order for conditional release; or
(iii) an order for home detention; or
(iv) an order for periodic detention; or
(v) any other order for the release of a person from custody; or
(vi) any other order of a kind prescribed by the regulations; and
(b) is prescribed by the regulations.
tribunal does not include a body or person of a kind referred to in the definition ofauthority in this section.
warrant includes a warrant issued by a body or person that is an authority for the purposes of this Part.
Schedule 3 — Technical corrections relating to Part numbering in the Crimes Act 1914
Omit Part 1AA”, substitute “Part IAA”.
Omit “Part 1AA”, substitute “Part IAA”.
Repeal the heading, substitute:
Omit “Part 1AA”, substitute “Part IAA”.
Note: The heading to section 23YR is altered by omitting “
Part 1AA ” and substituting “Part IAA ”.
Omit “Part 1 of the Principal Act”, substitute “Part I of the Principal Act”.
Note: This corrects a misdescribed amendment of the
Crimes Act 1914 .
Repeal the heading, substitute:
Note: This corrects a misdescribed amendment of the
Crimes Act 1914 .
Omit “all the provisions of Divisions 1 to 9 (inclusive) of Part 1B”, substitute “, all the provisions of Divisions 1 to 9 (inclusive) of Part IB”.
8 Subsection 3X(4) (definition of prisoner unlawfully at large ) Omit “Part 1B”, substitute “Part IB”.
Repeal the heading, substitute:
Omit “Part 1B”, substitute “Part IB”.
Omit “Part 1B”, substitute “Part IB”.
Omit “Part 1B”, substitute “Part IB”.
Omit “Part 1B”, substitute “Part IB”.
Omit “Part 1B”, substitute “Part IB”.
Omit “Part 1C”, substitute “Part IC”.
Omit “Part 1C”, substitute “Part IC”.
Omit “Part 1C”, substitute “Part IC”.
18
Subsection 23WA(1) (definition of Aboriginal legal aid organisation ) Omit “Part 1C”, substitute “Part IC”.
Omit “Part 1C” (wherever occurring), substitute “Part IC”.
Omit “Part 1C”, substitute “Part IC”.
Omit “Part 1C”, substitute “Part IC”.
Omit “Part 1C” (wherever occurring), substitute “Part IC”.
Omit “Part 1C”, substitute “Part IC”.
Omit “Part 1C”, substitute “Part IC”.
Omit “Part 1C”, substitute “Part IC”.
Omit “Part 1C” (wherever occurring), substitute “Part IC”.
Omit “Part 1C”, substitute “Part IC”.
Omit “Part 1C”, substitute “Part IC”.
Omit “Part 1C” (wherever occurring), substitute “Part IC”.
Note: The heading to section 23YS is altered by omitting “
Part 1C ” and substituting “Part IC ”.
Omit “Part 1C”, substitute “Part IC”.
Omit “Part 1C”, substitute “Part IC”.
Omit “Part 1C”, substitute “Part IC”.
Omit “Part 1C”, substitute Part IC”.
Omit “Part 1C”, substitute “Part IC”.
Omit “Part 1C”, substitute “Part IC”.
Omit “Part 1D”, substitute “Part ID”.
Omit “Part 1D” (wherever occurring), substitute “Part ID”.
Omit “Part 1D”, substitute “Part ID”.
Omit “Part 1D”, substitute “Part ID”.
Repeal the heading, substitute:
Repeal the heading, substitute:
Note: This corrects a misdescribed amendment of the
Crimes Act 1914 .
(1) The amendments made by this Schedule do not invalidate:
(a) an instrument made under, or referring to, a Part of the
Crimes Act 1914 whose heading is repealed and substituted by this Schedule; or(b) anything done under such an instrument or such a Part.
(2) Subitem (1) has effect whether the instrument was made, or the thing was done, before or after this Act received the Royal Assent.
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