Queensland Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN CRIME COMMISSION (QUEENSLAND) ACT 2003 - SCHEDULE 2

ACC Act means the Australian Crime Commission Act 2002 (Cwlth).

Note--

The Act was originally known as the National Crime Authority Act 1984.

ACC operation/investigation means--

(a) an ACC State intelligence operation; or

(b) an ACC State investigation.

ACC State intelligence operation means an intelligence operation that the ACC is undertaking under section 5(a).

ACC State investigation means an investigation that the ACC is conducting under section 5(b).

authority includes a department, agency or body.

Commonwealth body or person means--

(a) the ACC; or

(b) the Board; or

(c) the chair of the Board; or

(d) a member of the Board; or

(e) the Inter-Governmental Committee; or

(f) the CEO; or

(g) a member of the staff of the ACC; or

(h) an examiner; or

(i) a judge of the Federal Court; or

(j) a Federal Magistrate.

Commonwealth Minister means the Commonwealth Minister administering the ACC Act.

confer includes impose.

Federal Magistrate means a Federal Magistrate (including the Chief Federal Magistrate) who holds office under the Federal Magistrates Act 1999 (Cwlth).

function has a meaning affected by section 3(4).

intelligence operation means the collection, correlation, analysis or dissemination of criminal information and intelligence relating to a relevant criminal activity.

issuing officer means--

(a) a judge of the Federal Court: or

(b) a judge of the Supreme Court or District Court; or

(c) a Federal Magistrate.

member of the Queensland Police Service means a member of the Queensland Police Service under the Police Service Administration Act 1990, section 2.2(1).

NCA investigation, for part 7, division 2, see section 55.

NCA (State Provisions) Act, for part 7, division 2, see section 55.

perform includes exercise.

serious and organised crime means an offence--

(a) that involves 2 or more offenders and substantial planning and organisation; and

(b) that involves, or is of a kind that ordinarily involves, the use of sophisticated methods and techniques; and

(c) that is committed, or is of a kind that is ordinarily committed, in conjunction with other offences of a like kind; and

(d) that is an offence of a kind prescribed under a regulation or an offence that involves any of the following--

(i) theft;

(ii) fraud;

(iii) tax evasion;

(iv) money laundering;

(v) currency violations;

(vi) illegal drug dealings;

(vii) illegal gambling;

(viii) obtaining financial benefit by vice engaged in by others;

(ix) extortion;

(x) violence;

(xi) bribery or corruption of, or by, an officer of the Commonwealth, an officer of a State or an officer of a Territory;

(xii) perverting the course of justice;

(xiii) bankruptcy and company violations;

(xiv) harbouring of criminals;

(xv) forging of passports;

(xvi) firearms;

(xvi) armament dealings;

(xvii) illegal importation or exportation of fauna into or out of Australia;

(xix) cybercrime;

(xx) matters of the same general nature as 1 or more of the matters listed above; and

(e) that is punishable by imprisonment for a period of 3 years or more;

but--

(f) does not include an offence committed in the course of a genuine dispute as to matters about the relations of employees and employers by a party to the dispute, unless the offence is committed in connection with, or as part of, a course of activity involving the commission of a serious and organised crime other than an offence so committed; and

(g) does not include an offence the time for the commencement of a prosecution for which has expired.

special ACC operation/investigation means--

(a) an ACC State intelligence operation that the Board has determined to be a special operation; or

(b) an ACC State investigation that the Board has determined to be a special investigation.

State Minister means the State Minister administering this Act.