Crimes Legislation Amendment (Serious Drugs, Identity Crime and Other Measures) Bill 2012

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Crimes Legislation Amendment (Serious Drugs, Identity Crime and Other Measures) Bill 2012

Introduced into the House of Representatives on 10 October 2012
Portfolio: Attorney-General
Response received: 28 October 2012

Committee view

1.2        The committee thanks the Attorney-General for her response. The committee considers that the Attorney-General has adequately responded to most of the issues raised by the committee in its sixth report. However, the committee has decided to defer finalising its views on the compatibility of this bill with human rights to enable closer consideration of the provisions relating to the superannuation forfeiture and recovery orders.

Purpose of the bill

1.3        This bill amends the Australian Federal Police Act 1979, Crimes Act 1914, Crimes (Superannuation Benefits) Act 1989, Criminal Code Act 1995, Customs Act 1901, and Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Act 2006 to:

- facilitate flexibility in the Commonwealth’s serious drug offences framework to be able to respond quickly to new and emerging substances;

- expand the scope of existing identity crime offences, as well as enact new offences for the use of a carriage service in order to obtain and/or deal with identification information;

- create new offences relating to air travel and the use of false identities;

- improve the operation of the Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Act 2006;

- clarify that superannuation orders can be made in relation to all periods of a person’s employment as a Commonwealth employee, not only the period in which a corruption offence occurred, and

- increase the value of a penalty unit and introduce a requirement for the triennial review of the penalty unit.

1.4        The Attorney-General's response can be found in Appendix 1.

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