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CRIMINAL PROPERTY CONFISCATION ACT 2000 (NO. 68 OF 2000)


TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title
           Preamble

   PART 1 -- Preliminary  

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Meaning of terms used in this Act  
   4.      Confiscable property -- synopsis  
   5.      Application of Act to confiscable property  

   PART 2 -- Confiscation of property  

   6.      Unexplained wealth, criminal benefits, substituted property  
   7.      Automatic confiscation of certain property  
   8.      Drug trafficker’s property  
   9.      Effect of confiscation -- registrable real property  
   10.     Effect of confiscation -- other property  

   PART 3 -- Identifying and recovering confiscable property  

           Division 1 -- Unexplained wealth  

   11.     Applications for unexplained wealth declarations  
   12.     Unexplained wealth declarations  
   13.     Assessing the value of unexplained wealth  
   14.     Unexplained wealth payable to State  

           Division 2 -- Criminal benefits  

   15.     Applications for criminal benefits declarations  
   16.     Criminal benefits declarations -- crime-derived property  
   17.     Criminal benefits declarations -- unlawfully acquired property  
   18.     Limitations and ancillary orders  
   19.     Assessing the value of criminal benefits  
   20.     Criminal benefits payable to State  

           Division 3 -- Crime-used property substitution  

   21.     Applications for crime-used property substitution declaration  
   22.     Crime-used property substitution declarations  
   23.     Assessing the value of crime-used property  
   24.     Substituted property payable to State  

           Division 4 -- Recovery of confiscable property  

   25.     Recovery of unexplained wealth, criminal benefits or substituted property  
   26.     Use of frozen property to meet liability  
   27.     Use of effectively controlled property or gifts to meet liability  
   28.     Confiscable property declarations  
   29.     Restrictions on confiscation of declared confiscable property  
   30.     Declarations of confiscation  
   31.     Notice of confiscation of registrable property  
   32.     Variation of declarations  

   PART 4 -- Preventing dealings in confiscable property  

           Division 1 -- Seizure of crime-used and crime-derived property  

   33.     Seizure of crime-used or crime-derived property  

           Division 2 -- Freezing notices for crime-used and crime-derived property  

   34.     Issue of freezing notices  
   35.     Form of freezing notice  
   36.     Service and filing of freezing notices  
   37.     Statutory declarations required under freezing notice  
   38.     Duration of freezing notice -- registrable real property  
   39.     Duration of freezing notice -- other property  
   40.     Cancellation of freezing notices  

           Division 3 -- Freezing orders for confiscable property  

   41.     Applications for freezing orders  
   42.     Proceedings for freezing orders  
   43.     Freezing orders  
   44.     Grounds specified in freezing orders  
   45.     Scope of freezing orders  
   46.     Service of freezing orders  
   47.     Statutory declarations about frozen property  
   48.     Duration of freezing orders -- registrable real property  
   49.     Duration of freezing orders -- other property  

           Division 4 -- Dealing with seized or frozen property  

   50.     Prohibited dealings  
   51.     Effect of dealings in frozen property  
   52.     Permitted dealings in mortgaged property  

   PART 5 -- Investigation and search  

           Division 1 -- Preliminary inquiries  

   53.     Information volunteered by financial institutions  
   54.     Preliminary inquiries from financial institutions  
   55.     Protection for financial institutions  
   56.     Giving false or misleading information  

           Division 2 -- Examinations  

   57.     Applications for orders for examination  
   58.     Orders for examination  
   59.     Service of orders for examination  
   60.     Conduct of examinations  
   61.     Complying with examination orders  

           Division 3 -- Production of documents  

   62.     Application for production orders  
   63.     Production orders  
   64.     Inspection of property-tracking documents  
   65.     Complying with production orders  
   66.     Variation of production orders  

           Division 4 -- Monitoring financial transactions  

   67.     Applications for monitoring and suspension orders  
   68.     Monitoring orders and suspension orders  
   69.     Compliance with monitoring or suspension order  

           Division 5 -- Secrecy requirements  

   70.     Restricted disclosures  
   71.     Making restricted disclosures  
   72.     Disclosure to court  

           Division 6 -- Detention, search and seizure  

   73.     Power to detain persons  
   74.     Search warrants  
   75.     Searching detained persons  
   76.     Additional powers  
   77.     Later-produced documents  
   78.     Warrants under other enactments  

   PART 6 -- Objections to confiscation  

   79.     Objections to confiscation of frozen property  
   80.     Parties to objection proceedings  
   81.     Release of frozen property  
   82.     Release of crime-used property  
   83.     Release of crime-derived property  
   84.     Setting aside orders: other frozen property  
   85.     Applications for release of confiscated property  
   86.     Parties to proceedings  
   87.     Orders to release confiscated property  

   PART 7 -- Management of seized, frozen and confiscated property  

           Division 1 -- Control and management of property  

   88.     Management of seized property  
   89.     Management of frozen or confiscated property  
   90.     DPP’s capacity to carry out transactions  
   91.     Applications by owner for control and management  
   92.     Duties of responsible person  

           Division 2 -- Disposal of deteriorating or undesirable property  

   93.     Destruction of property on grounds of public interest  
   94.     Sale of deteriorating property  
   95.     Valuation and inventory of frozen property  

           Division 3 -- Management of property by Public Trustee  

   96.     Public Trustee’s power to appoint a manager  
   97.     Public Trustee’s liability for charges on frozen property  
   98.     Managing interstate property  
   99.     Fees payable to Public Trustee  
   100.    Obstructing Public Trustee  

   PART 8 -- Court jurisdiction and evidentiary matters  

   101.    Courts’ jurisdiction  
   102.    Proceedings  
   103.    Appearance by Attorney General  
   104.    Stays of proceedings  
   105.    Opinion evidence  
   106.    Evidence that property is crime-used or crime-derived  
   107.    Evidence of offence proceedings  
   108.    Transcripts of examinations  
   109.    Hearsay evidence  
   110.    Evidence of compliance with production orders  
   111.    Certificates under Misuse of Drugs Act 1981  
   112.    Enforcing compliance with Act or court order  

   PART 9 -- Interests in registrable property  

   113.    Registration of interests in registrable real property  
   114.    Registration of interests in other property  
   115.    Imputation of knowledge that property is frozen  
   116.    Instruments lodged with the Registrar of Titles  

   PART 10 -- Mutual recognition of freezing orders and confiscation of property  

           Division 1 -- Registration of WA orders in other jurisdictions  

   117.    Interstate registration of freezing notices and orders  

           Division 2 -- Recognition of orders of other jurisdictions  

   118.    Registration of interstate orders  
   119.    Effect of registration of interstate freezing orders  
   120.    Effect of registration of interstate confiscation declarations  
   121.    Duration of registration of interstate orders  
   122.    Cancellation of registration of interstate orders  

           Division 3 -- Charges on interstate property  

   123.    Creation of charge  
   124.    Cessation of charge  
   125.    Priority of charge  
   126.    Registration of charge on land  
   127.    Registration of charge on property except land  

   PART 11 -- Miscellaneous  

   128.    Act binds States and Commonwealth  
   129.    Property protected from seizure and confiscation  
   130.    Confiscation Proceeds Account  
   131.    Payments into and out of the Confiscation Proceeds Account  
   132.    Obstructing police officers  
   133.    Later applications, notices, orders or findings  
   134.    DPP’s power to delegate  
   135.    Orders relating to sham transactions  
   136.    Proceedings against body corporate  
   137.    Liability for carrying out functions under this Act  
   138.    Effect of owner’s death  
   139.    Legal professional privilege withdrawn  
   140.    Regulations  

   PART 12 -- Interpretation  

   141.    Confiscation offences  
   142.    Confiscable property  
   143.    The constituents of a person’s wealth  
   144.    Unexplained wealth  
   145.    Acquiring criminal benefits  
   146.    Crime-used property  
   147.    Criminal use of property  
   148.    Crime-derived property  
   149.    Lawful acquisition of property  
   150.    Service cut off date  
   151.    Dealing with property  
   152.    Value of property sold by State  
   153.    Innocent parties  
   154.    Transfer of property for value  
   155.    Property-tracking documents  
   156.    Effective control of property  
   157.    Conviction of a confiscation offence  
   158.    Charges for an offence  
   159.    Drug traffickers and declared drug traffickers  
   160.    Absconding in connection with an offence  
   161.    Sham transactions  
           Glossary  
           

[Assented to 6 December 2000]

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