Crime and Corruption Act 2001 (Qld)

Crime and Corruption Act 2001

An Act to provide for the establishment and operation of a Crime and Corruption Commission, and a Parliamentary Crime and Corruption Committee, and for other purposes

Chapter 1 Preliminary

Part 1 Introduction

1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Crime and Corruption Act 2001.

2 Commencement This Act commences on a day to be fixed by proclamation.

3 Act binds all persons (1) This Act binds all persons, including the State, and, so far as the legislative power of the Parliament permits, the Commonwealth and the other States. (2) Subsection (1) does not make the State, the Commonwealth or another State liable to be prosecuted for an offence.

Part 2 Purpose

4 Act's purposes (1) The main purposes of this Act are— (a) to combat and reduce the incidence of major crime; and (b) to continuously improve the integrity of, and to reduce the incidence of corruption in, the public sector. (2) The Act also has as the purpose to facilitate the commission's involvement in a confiscation related investigation.

5 How Act's purposes are to be achieved (1) The Act's purposes are to be achieved primarily by establishing a permanent commission to be called the Crime and Corruption Commission. (2) The commission is to have investigative powers, not ordinarily available to the police service, that will enable the commission to effectively investigate major crime and criminal organisations and their participants. (3) Also, the commission is to— (a) investigate cases of corrupt conduct, particularly more serious cases of corrupt conduct; and (b) help units of public administration to deal effectively and appropriately with corruption by increasing their capacity to do so. (4) Further, the commission has particular powers for confiscation related investigations for supporting its role under the Confiscation Act.