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CRIMINAL ASSETS RECOVERY ACT 1990 - SECT 28C
General provisions applying to proceeds assessment and unexplained wealth orders
(1) In assessing the amount payable under an unexplained wealth order, the
Supreme Court must deduct the following (but only if those amounts would
otherwise be included in the assessment of the amount payable under the
order)-- (a) the value of any interests in property of the defendant forfeited
under another confiscation order under this Act or an
interstate assets forfeiture order,
(b) any amounts paid or payable by the
defendant under any previous proceeds assessment order or
unexplained wealth order under this Act or any
interstate proceeds assessment or unexplained wealth order,
(c) the value of
any interests in property of the defendant forfeited under a
confiscation order or interstate forfeiture order within the meaning of the
Confiscation of Proceeds of Crime Act 1989 or under Part 2, Division 1A of
that Act,
(d) any amounts paid or payable by the defendant under any drug
proceeds order, pecuniary penalty order or interstate pecuniary penalty order
within the meaning of the Confiscation of Proceeds of Crime Act 1989 .
(1A)
In assessing the amount payable under an unexplained wealth order, the Supreme
Court may, if the Supreme Court considers it necessary, deduct from the amount
assessed under section 28B the reasonable necessities of life of-- (a) the
person subject to the order, and
(b) the person's dependants, if any.
(2)
The Supreme Court may not make a proceeds assessment order or
unexplained wealth order in an application that relates wholly to
external serious crime related activity, unless it is satisfied that no action
has been taken under a law of the Commonwealth or any other place outside this
State (including outside Australia) in relation to the proceeds of the
external serious crime related activity.
(3) For the purposes of subsection
(2), an affidavit by an authorised officer that includes a statement that the
officer has made due inquiry and is satisfied that no action has been taken
under a law of the Commonwealth or any place outside this State (including
outside Australia) against any interests in property in relation to the
proceeds of the external serious crime related activity is proof, in the
absence of evidence to the contrary, of the matters contained in the
affidavit.
(4) The quashing or setting aside of a conviction for a
serious crime related activity does not affect the validity of a
proceeds assessment order or unexplained wealth order.
(5) The making of a
proceeds assessment order or unexplained wealth order does not prevent the
making under Division 1 of an assets forfeiture order based on the
serious crime related activity, or on all or any of the serious crime related
activities, in relation to which the proceeds assessment order or
unexplained wealth order is made.
(6) The amount a person is required to pay
under a proceeds assessment order or unexplained wealth order is a debt
payable by the person to the Crown on the making of the order and is
recoverable as such.
(7) If a proceeds assessment order or
unexplained wealth order is made against a dead person, subsection (6) has
effect before final distribution of the estate as if the person had died the
day after the making of the order.
(8) The net amount recovered under a
proceeds assessment order or unexplained wealth order is to be paid to the
Treasurer and credited to the Proceeds Account.
(9) Notice of an application
for a proceeds assessment order or unexplained wealth order is to be given to
the person against whom the order is sought and any other person required by
the regulations to be given notice.
(10) The absence of a person entitled to
be given notice of a proceeds assessment order or unexplained wealth order
does not prevent the Supreme Court from making the order.
(11) The Supreme
Court may, when it makes a proceeds assessment order or
unexplained wealth order or at any later time, make any ancillary orders that
the Court considers appropriate.
(12) Despite any rule of law, or any
practice, relating to hearsay evidence, the Supreme Court may, for the
purposes of an application for a proceeds assessment order or
unexplained wealth order, receive evidence of the opinion of-- (a) a member of
the NSW Police Force, or
(b) a member of the Australian Federal Police, or
(c) an officer of Customs within the meaning of the Customs Act 1901 of the
Commonwealth, or
(d) a member or officer of the Commission,
who is
experienced in the investigation of illegal activities involving plants or
drugs, being an opinion with respect to-- (e) the amount that was the market
value at a particular time of a particular kind of plant or drug, or
(f) the
amount, or range of amounts, ordinarily paid at a particular time for the
doing of anything in relation to a particular kind of plant or drug.
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