CRIMINAL ORGANISATIONS CONTROL ACT 2012 - SECT 137 Review of Act
CRIMINAL ORGANISATIONS CONTROL ACT 2012 - SECT 137
Review of ActS. 137(1) substituted by No. 48/2015 s. 8(1).
(1) The Attorney-General must cause a review to be undertaken of the operation and effectiveness of this Act during the report period.
(2) The review must be completed and a report of the review must be given to the Attorney-General within one year after the end of the report period.
(3) The Attorney-General must cause a copy of the report of the review to be laid before each House of Parliament within 12 sitting days after the Attorney-General is given the report.
(4) Subject to subsection (5), the following persons may give any information concerning the operation of this Act to any person involved in undertaking the review—
(a) the Chief Commissioner;
(b) a special counsel appointed under section 71 or 79;
(c) the Prothonotary;
(d) the incorporated associations Registrar.
(5) A person disclosing information under subsection (4)—
(a) may disclose information that—
(i) is subject to a criminal intelligence protection order; or
(ii) was provided to the Court in the course of an application for a criminal intelligence protection order; and
(b) must, when disclosing that information, state that the information is of the kind referred to in paragraph (a)(i) or (ii), as the case requires.
(6) The report of the review must not include any information referred to in subsection (5).
S. 137(7) inserted by No. 48/2015 s. 8(2).
(7) In this section—
"report period" means the period—
(a) beginning on this Act's commencement; and
(b) ending on the day that is 3 years after the day on which all of the amendments made by the Criminal Organisations Control Amendment (Unlawful Associations) Act 2015 are in operation.