Crimes Legislation Amendment (Serious Drugs, Identity Crime and Other Measures) Bill 2012
Information about the Inquiry
On 11 October 2012 the Senate referred the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Serious Drugs, Identity Crime and Other Measures) Bill 2012 for inquiry and report.
The Bill amends the
Australian Federal Police Act 1979, the
Crimes Act 1914, the
Crimes (Superannuation Benefits) Act 1989, the
Criminal Code Act 1995, the
Customs Act 1901, and the
Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Act 2006.
The amendments introduce a range of measures which seek to improve Commonwealth criminal justice arrangements, including amendments to:
- ensure that the Commonwealth's serious drug offences framework can quickly respond 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.
Submissions should be received by 26 October 2012. The reporting date is 19 November 2012.
The Committee is seeking written submissions from interested individuals and organisations preferably in electronic form submitted online or sent by email to legcon.sen@aph.gov.au as an attached Adobe PDF or MS Word format document. The email must include full postal address and contact details.
Alternatively, written submissions may be sent to:
Committee Secretary
Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia
Notes to help you prepare your submission are available from the website at https://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/wit_sub/index.htm. Alternatively, the Committee Secretariat will be able to help you with your inquiries and can be contacted on telephone +61 2 6277 3560 or facsimile +61 2 6277 5794 or by email to legcon.sen@aph.gov.au.
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Once the Committee accepts your submission, it becomes a confidential Committee document and is protected by Parliamentary Privilege. You must not release your submission without the Committee's permission. If you do, it will not be protected by Parliamentary Privilege. At some stage during the inquiry, the Committee normally makes submissions public and places them on its website. Please indicate if you want your submission to be kept confidential.
For further information, contact: Committee Secretary
Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia