CRIMINAL PROPERTY CONFISCATION ACT 2000 - SECT 5

CRIMINAL PROPERTY CONFISCATION ACT 2000 - SECT 5

5 .         Application of Act to confiscable property

        (1)         This Act applies to a person’s unexplained wealth whether any property, service, advantage or benefit that is a constituent of the person’s wealth was acquired before or after the commencement of this Act.

        (2)         This Act applies to criminal benefits, crime-used property and crime-derived property —

            (a)         whether the relevant confiscation offence was committed in Western Australia or elsewhere; and

            (b)         whether the relevant confiscation offence was committed before or after the commencement of this Act; and

            (c)         whether or not anyone has been charged with, or convicted of, the relevant confiscation offence; and

            (d)         if someone has been convicted of the relevant confiscation offence — whether the conviction took place before or after the commencement of this Act.

        (3)         This Act applies —

            (a)         to property in Western Australia; and

            (b)         to the fullest extent of the capacity of the Parliament to make laws with respect to property outside the State, to property outside Western Australia.