Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Australian Crime Commission (State Provisions) Act 2003 - SECT 48

Annual report

48. Annual report



(1) In this section-

annual report means a report by the Chair of the Board under section 61 of the
ACC Act.

(2) An annual report in relation to a year must include the following-

   (a)  a description of any ACC State investigation that the ACC conducted
        during the year and that the Board determined to be a special
        investigation;





   (b)  a description, which may include statistics, of any patterns or
        trends, and the nature and scope, of any criminal activity that have
        come to the attention of the ACC during that year in the performance
        of its functions under this Act;

   (c)  any recommendations for changes in the laws of the Commonwealth, of a
        participating State or of a Territory, or for administrative action,
        that, as a result of the performance of the ACC's functions under this
        Act, the Board considers should be made;

   (d)  the general nature and the extent of any information furnished by the
        CEO during that year under this Act to a law enforcement agency;

   (e)  the extent to which ACC State investigations have resulted in the
        prosecution in that year of persons for offences;

   (f)  the extent to which ACC State investigations have resulted in
        confiscation proceedings;

   (g)  particulars of the number and results of court proceedings involving
        the ACC in relation to its functions under this Act being proceedings
        that were determined, or otherwise disposed of, during that year.

(3) An annual report must not-

   (a)  identify persons as being suspected of having committed offences; or

   (b)  identify persons as having committed offences unless those persons
        have been convicted of those offences.



(4) In any annual report the Chair of the Board must take reasonable care to
ensure that the identity of a person is not revealed if to reveal his or her
identity might, having regard to any material appearing in the report,
prejudice the safety or reputation of a person or prejudice the fair trial of
a person who has been or may be charged with an offence.

(5) The State Minister is to cause a copy of-

   (a)  each annual report that he or she receives; and

   (b)  any comments made on the report by the Inter-Governmental Committee,
        being comments that accompanied the report-

to be laid before each House of the Parliament of the State within 15 sitting
days of that House after he or she receives the report.