Bills Digest No. 81 2002-03
Crimes Amendment Bill 2002
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Passage History
Purpose
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Passage History
Crimes Amendment Bill 2002
Date Introduced: 22 October 2002
House: House of Representatives
Portfolio: Justice and Customs
Commencement: Royal Assent
Note: The Act received Royal
Assent on 23 October 2002, (ie one day after its introduction into
the Parliament) and became Act No. 88 of 2002.
Purpose
To amend the
Crimes Act 1914 to ensure that information contained on a
national, State or Territory DNA database is able to be accessed
and disclosed for the purposes of either:
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- identifying an unidentified person who died as a result of the
bombing in Bali on 12 October 2002, or
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- conducting a criminal investigation in relation to that
incident.
The Bill also provides for information to be
available in relation to other deaths of Australian citizens
overseas, where a disallowable ministerial determination to that
effect is made.(1)
1. Bills List, Senate Table Office as at 24
December 2002.
Mary Anne Neilsen
15 January 2003
Bills Digest Service
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