Criminal Assets Confiscation (Prescribed Drug Offenders) Amendment Bill

Final Stages

The Legislative Council agreed to the bill with the amendments indicated by the following schedule, to which amendments the Legislative Council desires the concurrence of the House of Assembly:

No. 1. Clause 20—Delete the clause

No. 2. Clause 21, page 9, lines 29 to 31—Delete clause 21 and substitute:

21—Amendment of section 209—Credits to the Victims of Crime Fund

(1) Section 209(1)—after 'Subject to' insert:

subsection (1a) and

(2) Section 209—after subsection (1) insert:

(1a) The Attorney-General must ensure that in each financial year an amount equal to 50% of the proceeds of confiscated assets of prescribed drug offenders for the preceding financial year is, instead of being paid into the Victims of Crime Fund under subsection (1), applied as additional government funding for drug rehabilitation programs (and such money may be applied without further appropriation than this subsection).

No. 3. Clause 22—Delete the clause

No. 4. New clause, page 11, after line 4—Insert:

24—Review of Act

(1) The Attorney-General must, within 3 years after the commencement of this Act, undertake a review of the amendments to the Criminal Assets Confiscation Act 2005 enacted by this Act.

(2) The Attorney-General must cause a report on the outcome of the review to be tabled in both Houses of Parliament within 12 sitting days after its completion.