Victorian Current Acts

CRIMES (ASSUMED IDENTITIES) ACT 2004

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purposes  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Definitions  

   PART 2--AUTHORITY FOR ASSUMED IDENTITY

   4.      Application for authority to acquire or use assumed identity  
   5.      Determination of applications  
   6.      Form of authority  
   7.      Period of authority  
   8.      Variation or cancellation of authority  
   9.      Yearly review of authority  
   10.     Making entries in register of births, deaths and marriages  
   11.     Cancellation of authority affecting entry in register of births, deaths and marriages  
   12.     Cancelling entries in register of births, deaths and marriages  

   PART 3--EVIDENCE OF ASSUMED IDENTITY

   13.     Request for evidence of assumed identity  
   14.     Government issuing agencies to comply with request  
   15.     Non-government issuing agencies may comply with request  
   16.     Cancellation of evidence of assumed identity  
   17.     Protection from criminal liability—officers of issuing agencies  
   18.     Indemnity for issuing agencies and officers  

   PART 4--EFFECT OF AUTHORITY

   19.     Assumed identity may be acquired and used  
   20.     Protection from criminal liability—authorised persons  
   21.     Indemnity for authorised persons  
   22.     Particular qualifications  
   23.     Effect of being unaware of variation or cancellation of authority  

   PART 5--MUTUAL RECOGNITION

   24.     Requests to a participating jurisdiction for evidence of assumed identity  
   25.     Requests from a participating jurisdiction for evidence of assumed identity  
   26.     Directions from a participating jurisdiction to cancel evidence of assumed identity  
   27.     Indemnity for issuing agencies and officers  
   28.     Application of this Act to authorities under corresponding laws  

   PART 6--COMPLIANCE AND MONITORING

           Division 1--Misuse of assumed identity and information

   29.     Misuse of assumed identity  
   30.     Disclosing information about assumed identity  

           Division 2--Reporting and record-keeping

   31.     Reports about authorities for assumed identities etc.  
   32.     Record keeping  
   33.     Audit of records  

   PART 7--GENERAL

   34.     Delegation of chief officer's functions  
   34A.    Deputy Commissioners of Victoria Police  
   35.     Regulation-making power  
   36.     Transitional provisions  
   37.     Transitional provisions—Independent Broad-based Anti‑corruption Commission Amendment (Investigative Functions) Act 2012  
   38.     Transitional provision—Major Crime and Community Safety Legislation Amendment Act 2022  
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