New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL ASSETS RECOVERY ACT 1990 - SECT 59A

59A Ministerial arrangements for things seized in connection with extra-territorial offences

(1) The Minister may enter into arrangements with a Minister of another State or a Territory or the Commonwealth under which things seized under this Act that may be relevant to the investigation of an offence against the law of that State or Territory or the Commonwealth--

(a) are to be transmitted to the appropriate authority in that State or Territory or the Commonwealth for the purposes of the investigation of, or proceedings in respect of, that offence, and

(b) when no longer required for the purposes of any such investigation or proceedings, are (unless disposed of by order or direction of a court or Magistrate) to be returned to the Commissioner of Police.

(2) This section has effect despite section 41.

(3) In this section--

"appropriate authority" means--

(a) in relation to another State or Territory (other than the Australian Capital Territory)--an authority exercising, in relation to the police force of that State or Territory, functions corresponding to those of the Commissioner of Police in relation to the NSW Police Force, or

(b) in relation to the Commonwealth or the Australian Capital Territory--the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police.