Bill
Crimes Legislation Amendment (Powers, Offences and Other Measures) Bill 2018
passed, as at 2018-08-24. Justice portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Justice
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-03-30
- second reading — 2017-03-30
- second reading — 2018-06-27
- second reading — 2018-06-27
- committee — 2018-06-27
- third reading — 2018-06-27
- introduced — 2018-08-13
- second reading — 2018-08-13
- second reading — 2018-08-16
- second reading — 2018-08-16
- third reading — 2018-08-16
- passed — 2018-08-16
- royal assent — 2018-08-24
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2017-03-30.
This bill would change several Commonwealth criminal justice laws, including the Australian Federal Police Act 1979, the Crimes Act 1914, and the Criminal Code Act 1995.
It would clarify police cooperation with international and non-government groups, adjust custody notification rules for questioning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, create separate disclosure offences for insiders and outsiders in controlled operations, raise maximum penalties for general dishonesty, remove an obsolete death penalty reference, strengthen protections for vulnerable witnesses, and allow information sharing to fight fraud against the Commonwealth with privacy safeguards.
It would also let the New South Wales Law Enforcement Conduct Commission use spent conviction information under the Commonwealth scheme, and the bill has eight schedules.
- Clarify Australian Federal Police functions to cooperate with international and non-government organisations.
- Clarify custody notification obligations for investigating officials questioning Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people.
- Create separate offence regimes for insiders and outsiders disclosing controlled operation information.
- Increase maximum penalties for general dishonesty breaches.
- Remove an obsolete death penalty reference from the Crimes Act 1914.
- Authorise collection, use, and disclosure of information to prevent or deal with fraud against the Commonwealth, with privacy safeguards.
Commonwealth criminal justice arrangements, including police, investigating officials, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, vulnerable witnesses, and the New South Wales Law Enforcement Conduct Commission.
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