Criminal Assets Confiscation (Serious Offences) Amendment Act 2007 (SA)

South Australia

Criminal Assets Confiscation (Serious Offences) Amendment Act 2007

An Act to amend the Criminal Assets Confiscation Act 2005.

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. (1)

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

   foreign offence includes an offence against international law;

2. (2)

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

   or

   1. (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:

1. (b)

   a serious offence committed at any time whether the offence occurred—

   1. (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

   2. (ii)

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

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