Bill
Crimes Legislation Amendment (Ransomware Action Plan) Bill 2022
lapsed, as at 2023-03-27.
- Sponsor
- Karen Andrews
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2022-09-26
- second reading — 2022-09-26
- other — 2023-03-27
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 2022-09-26.
The bill would update criminal offences and procedures to address ransomware threats.
It would amend the Criminal Code Act 1995, the Crimes Act 1914 and the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.
The bill implements parts of the Ransomware Action Plan announced on 13 October 2021.
- Modernises criminal offences and procedures to respond to ransomware.
- Implements key aspects of the Ransomware Action Plan.
- Targets data theft, encryption, cyber extortion and Ransomware-as-a-Service.
Individuals and crime syndicates, including transnational syndicates, involved in ransomware attacks.
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