Western Australian Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL PROPERTY CONFISCATION ACT 2000

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 -- Preliminary  

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Meaning of terms used in this Act  
   4.      Confiscable property -- synopsis  
   5.      Application of Act to confiscable property  

   PART 2 -- Confiscation of property  

   6.      When property is confiscated  
   7.      When frozen property is confiscated automatically  
   8.      Drug trafficker’s property  
   9.      Time and effect of confiscation of registrable real property  
   10.     Time and effect of confiscation of other property  

   PART 3 -- Identifying and recovering confiscable property  

           Division 1 -- Unexplained wealth  

   11.     Applying for unexplained wealth declarations  
   12.     Making unexplained wealth declarations  
   13.     Assessing the value of unexplained wealth  
   14.     Unexplained wealth payable to State  

           Division 2 -- Criminal benefits  

   15.     Applying for criminal benefits declarations  
   16.     Making criminal benefits declarations for crime-derived property  
   17.     Making criminal benefits declarations for unlawfully acquired property  
   18.     Limitations and ancillary orders  
   19.     Assessing the value of criminal benefits  
   20.     Criminal benefits payable to State  

           Division 3 -- Crime-used property substitution  

   21.     Applying for crime-used property substitution declaration  
   22.     Making crime-used property substitution declarations  
   23.     Assessing the value of crime-used property  
   24.     Substituted property payable to State  

           Division 4 -- Recovery of confiscable property  

   25.     Recovery of unexplained wealth, criminal benefits or substituted property  
   26.     Use of frozen property to meet liability  
   27.     Applying for confiscable property declarations  
   28.     Making confiscable property declarations  
   29.     Restrictions on confiscation of declared confiscable property  
   30.     Applying for and making declarations of confiscation  
   31.     Notice of confiscation of registrable property  
   32.     Varying declarations  

   PART 4 -- Preventing dealings in confiscable property  

           Division 1 -- Seizure of crime-used and crime-derived property  

   33.     Seizure of crime-used or crime-derived property  

           Division 2 -- Freezing notices for crime-used and crime-derived property  

   34.     Issue of freezing notices  
   35.     Form of freezing notices  
   36.     Service and filing of freezing notices  
   37.     Persons served with freezing notices to declare any other interested parties  
   38.     Duration of freezing notices for registrable real property  
   39.     Duration of freezing notices for other property  
   40.     Cancellation of freezing notices  

           Division 3 -- Freezing orders for confiscable property  

   41.     Applying for freezing orders  
   42.     Proceedings for freezing orders, court’s powers in  
   43.     Making freezing orders  
   44.     Grounds for freezing orders to be considered and specified by court  
   45.     Scope of freezing orders  
   46.     Service of freezing orders  
   47.     Persons served with freezing orders to declare any other interested parties  
   48.     Duration of freezing orders for registrable real property  
   49.     Duration of freezing orders for other property  

           Division 4 -- Dealing with seized or frozen property  

   50.     Prohibited dealings  
   51.     Effect of prohibited dealings in frozen property  
   52.     Permitted dealings in mortgaged property  

   PART 5 -- Investigation and search  

           Division 1 -- Preliminary inquiries  

   53.     Financial institutions may volunteer information  
   54.     Financial institutions may be required to give information  
   55.     Protection for financial institutions  
   56.     Financial institutions giving false or misleading information  

           Division 2 -- Examinations  

   57.     Applying for orders for examination  
   58.     Making orders for examination  
   59.     Service of orders for examination  
   60.     Conduct of examinations  
   61.     Examination orders, contravening, admissibility of information given under  

           Division 3 -- Production of documents  

   62.     Applying for production orders  
   63.     Making production orders  
   64.     Inspection of property-tracking documents  
   65.     Production orders, contravening, admissibility of information given under  
   66.     Varying production orders  

           Division 4 -- Monitoring financial transactions  

   67.     Applying for monitoring orders and suspension orders  
   68.     Making monitoring orders and suspension orders  
   69.     Contravening monitoring orders or suspension orders  

           Division 5 -- Secrecy requirements  

   70.     Restricted disclosures  
   71.     Who restricted disclosures may be made to  
   72.     Disclosure to court  

           Division 6 -- Detention, search and seizure  

   73.     Power to detain and search persons for property or documents  
   74.     Search warrants  
   75.     Searching detained persons  
   76.     Additional powers for powers under s. 73 and  
   77.     Warrant under s. 74 extends to documents produced later  
   78.     Other laws on search warrants not affected  

   PART 6 -- Objections to confiscation  

   79.     Objecting to confiscation of frozen property  
   80.     Parties to objection proceedings  
   81.     Court may release frozen property under s. 82, 83 or  
   82.     Release of crime-used property  
   83.     Release of crime-derived property  
   84.     Release of other frozen property  
   85.     Applying for release of confiscated property  
   86.     Parties to proceedings  
   87.     Release of confiscated property  

   PART 7 -- Management of seized, frozen and confiscated property  

           Division 1 -- Control and management of property  

   88.     Management of seized property  
   89.     Management of frozen or confiscated property  
   90.     DPP’s capacity to carry out transactions  
   91.     Applications by owner for control and management  
   92.     Duties of person responsible for property  

           Division 2 -- Disposal of deteriorating or undesirable property  

   93.     Destruction of property on grounds of public interest  
   94.     Sale of deteriorating property  
   95.     Valuation and inventory of frozen property  

           Division 3 -- Management of property by Public Trustee  

   96.     Public Trustee’s power to appoint a manager  
   97.     Public Trustee’s liability for charges on frozen property  
   98.     Managing interstate property  
   99.     Fees payable to Public Trustee  
   100.    Obstructing Public Trustee  

   PART 8 -- Court jurisdiction and evidentiary matters  

   101.    Courts’ jurisdiction  
   102.    Proceedings, general provisions about  
   103.    Attorney General entitled to appear in proceedings  
   104.    Stays of proceedings  
   105.    Opinion evidence  
   106.    Grounds for finding property is crime-used or crime-derived  
   107.    Evidence relating to confiscation offence may be used in confiscation proceedings  
   108.    Transcripts of proceedings on examination orders  
   109.    Hearsay evidence  
   110.    Evidence of compliance with production orders  
   111.    Certificates under Misuse of Drugs Act 1981  
   112.    Enforcing compliance with Act or court order  

   PART 9 -- Interests in registrable property  

   113.    Registration of interests in registrable real property  
   114.    Registration of interests in other property  
   115.    Imputation of knowledge that property is frozen  
   116.    Form of documents lodged with the Registrar of Titles  

   PART 10 -- Mutual recognition of freezing orders and confiscation of property  

           Division 1 -- Registration of WA orders in other jurisdictions  

   117.    Interstate registration of freezing notices and orders  

           Division 2 -- Recognition of orders of other jurisdictions  

   118.    Registration of interstate orders  
   119.    Effect of registration of interstate freezing orders  
   120.    Effect of registration of interstate confiscation declarations  
   121.    Duration of registration of interstate orders  
   122.    Cancellation of registration of interstate orders  

           Division 3 -- Charges on interstate property  

   123.    Creation of charge  
   124.    Cessation of charge  
   125.    Priority of charge  
   126.    Registration of charge on land  
   127.    Registration of charge on property other than land  

   PART 11 -- Miscellaneous  

   128.    Act binds States, Territories and Commonwealth  
   129.    Property protected from seizure and confiscation  
   130.    Confiscation Proceeds Account  
   131.    Payments into and out of the Confiscation Proceeds Account  
   132.    Obstructing police officers  
   133.    Later applications, notices, orders or findings  
   134.    DPP’s power to delegate  
   135.    Orders relating to sham transactions  
   136.    Proceedings against body corporate  
   137.    Liability for carrying out functions under this Act  
   138.    Effect of owner’s death  
   139.    Legal professional privilege withdrawn  
   140.    Regulations  

   PART 12 -- Interpretation  

   141.    Term used: confiscation offence  
   142.    Term used: confiscable  
   143.    Term used: wealth  
   144.    Term used: unexplained wealth  
   145.    Term used: criminal benefit  
   146.    Term used: crime-used  
   147.    Term used: criminal use  
   148.    Term used: crime-derived  
   149.    Term used: lawfully acquired  
   150.    Term used: service cut off date  
   151.    Term used: deal (in relation to property)  
   152.    Term used: value (in relation to property sold by or for the State)  
   153.    Term used: innocent party  
   154.    Term used: value (in relation to transfer of property)  
   155.    Term used: property-tracking document  
   156.    Term used: effective control (in relation to property)  
   157.    Term used: conviction (in relation to confiscation offence)  
   158.    Term used: charge (in relation to an offence)  
   159.    Term used: declared drug trafficker  
   160.    Term used: abscond (in relation to an offence)  
   161.    Term used: sham transaction  
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