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ACTS AMENDMENT (CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION) BILL 2001

                     Western Australia


 Acts Amendment (Criminal Investigation)
              Bill 2001

                       CONTENTS

1.   Short title                              1
2.   Commencement                             2
3.   Coroners Act 1996 amended                2
4.   Surveillance Devices Act 1998 amended    3




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                      LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

              (As amended during consideration in detail)


     Acts Amendment (Criminal Investigation)
                  Bill 2001


                               A Bill for


An Act to amend --
•  the Coroners Act 1996; and
•  the Surveillance Devices Act 1998.



The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

1.      Short title
        This Act may be cited as the Acts Amendment (Criminal
        Investigation) Act 2001.




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     2.         Commencement
                This Act comes into operation on the seventh day after the day
                on which it receives the Royal Assent.

     3.         Coroners Act 1996 amended
5         (1)   The Coroners Act 1996* section 46(3) and the penalty provision
                at the foot of it are repealed.
                [* Reprinted as at 3 August 2001.]
          (2)   After section 46 of that Act, the following section is inserted --
     "
10          46A.      Crime of disobeying coroner
                (1)   A person who does not obey a summons, order, or
                      direction of a coroner under section 46(1) commits an
                      offence that is a crime.
                      Penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years and a fine
15                            of $100 000.
                (2)   If the offence is dealt with summarily under
                      subsection (3), the maximum penalty for the offence
                      that may be imposed by the court in the summary
                      proceedings is imprisonment for 2 years and a fine
20                    of $40 000.
                (3)   If a person charged before a court of summary
                      jurisdiction with an offence under subsection (1) elects
                      to have the charge dealt with summarily and the
                      prosecutor consents, the charge is to be dealt with
25                    summarily.
                (4)   Despite subsection (3) --
                       (a) if the court hearing the charge is, for any
                             reason, of the opinion that the charge should be
                             prosecuted on indictment, the court is to abstain


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                         from dealing with the charge summarily and
                         commit the defendant for trial on indictment;
                   (b)   if the court, having convicted the defendant in
                         summary proceedings, is, for any reason, of the
5                        opinion that the penalty that it is empowered to
                         impose would be inadequate, the court may,
                         instead of passing sentence, commit the
                         convicted person for sentence.
            (5)   Proceedings for an offence under subsection (1) can be
10                commenced at any time.
                                                                             ".

     4.     Surveillance Devices Act 1998 amended
            After the Surveillance Devices Act 1998* section 4, in Part 1,
            the following section is inserted --
15   "
          4A.     State police working for National Crime Authority
                  A power under this Act may be exercised in a person's
                  capacity as a member of the police force of the State
                  even if the person is also a member of the staff of the
20                National Crime Authority.
                                                                             ".
            [* Act No. 56 of 1998.]




 


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