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NATIONAL CONSUMER CREDIT PROTECTION ACT 2009 - SECT 272B

Extra application of Crimes Act search warrant provisions

  (1)   In addition to the application that the applied provisions have (disregarding this subsection) in relation to offences mentioned in subsection   (3), the applied provisions also apply under this subsection in relation to those offences, with the modifications set out in Subdivision B.

  (2)   To avoid doubt, subsection   (1) does not limit the application that the applied provisions have (disregarding that subsection).

  (3)   For the purposes of subsection   (1), the offences are indictable offences under any of the following:

  (a)   the credit legislation;

  (b)   a provision of a law of the Commonwealth, or of a law of a referring State or a Territory, a contravention of which:

  (i)   concerns the management, conduct or affairs of a licensee, credit representative or other person who engages, or has engaged, in a credit activity; or

  (ii)   involves fraud or dishonesty and relates to a credit activity engaged in by a person, or a credit contract, mortgage, guarantee or consumer lease.

  (4)   For the purposes of this Division, the applied provisions are as follows:

  (a)   Divisions   1, 2, 4C and 5 of Part   IAA of the Crimes Act 1914 ;

  (b)   any other provisions of that Act, to the extent that those other provisions relate to the operation of the provisions mentioned in paragraph   (a).


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