Bill
Crimes Legislation Amendment (Combatting Corporate Crime) Bill 2019
lapsed, as at 2022-07-25. Attorney-General portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Attorney-General
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-12-02
- second reading — 2019-12-02
- other — 2022-07-25
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 2019-12-02.
This bill would change laws to better combat serious corporate crime.
It would create a new offence for companies that fail to stop associates from bribing foreign officials and introduce a deferred prosecution agreement scheme.
The bill would replace the existing two-limb test for dishonesty with an objective test based on the standards of ordinary people.
- The bill broadens the foreign bribery offence and removes restrictive requirements.
- It allows the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions to offer deferred prosecution agreements to non-individuals.
- It introduces a new offence for body corporates that fail to prevent an associate from bribing a foreign public official.
- It replaces the dishonesty definition in the Criminal Code with an objective test.
Body corporates, individuals involved in foreign bribery, and the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions.
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