Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................ 1
2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1
3............ Schedule(s).......................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1—Amendment of the National Crime Authority Act 1984 3
National Crime Authority Amendment Act 1999
No. 195, 1999
An Act to amend the National Crime Authority Act 1984, and for related purposes
[Assented to 23 December 1999]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the National Crime Authority Amendment Act 1999.
2 Commencement
(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
(2) The amendment made as set out in Schedule 1 is taken to have commenced on 1 July 1984, immediately after the commencement of the amendments of the National Crime Authority Act 1984 that were made as set out in Schedule 1 to the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 2) 1984.
3 Schedule(s)
Subject to section 2, each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendment of the National Crime Authority Act 1984
1 Subsection 55A(2)
Repeal the subsection, substitute:
(2) It is also declared to be the intention of the Parliament that, in addition to the powers, functions and duties (the Commonwealth powers, functions and duties) conferred or imposed on the Authority or the Judges of the Federal Court by this or any other Act:
(a) the Authority, or those Judges, may, except as otherwise declared by the regulations, have conferred or imposed on it or them, by a law of a State, powers, functions and duties (the State powers, functions and duties) of the same kinds as the Commonwealth powers, functions and duties; and
(b) the State powers, functions and duties may relate to the investigation of any relevant criminal activity, whether or not the Commonwealth powers, functions and duties relate to the investigation of that activity.
[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 24 November 1999
Senate on 9 December 1999]