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CRIMINAL LAW CONSOLIDATION ACT 1935 - SECT 83GA

83GA—Preliminary

        (1)         In this Division, unless the contrary intention appears—

"Committee" means the Crime and Public Integrity Policy Committee of the Parliament;

"conviction" means a finding of guilt by a court, or the acceptance of a plea of guilty by a court, whether or not a conviction is recorded;

"criminal organisation" means—

            (a)         an organisation of 3 or more persons—

                  (i)         who have as their purpose, or 1 of their purposes, engaging in, organising, planning, facilitating, supporting, or otherwise conspiring to engage in, serious criminal activity; and

                  (ii)         who, by their association, represent an unacceptable risk to the safety, welfare or order of the community; or

            (b)         a declared organisation within the meaning of the Serious and Organised Crime (Control) Act 2008 ; or

            (c)         an entity declared by regulation to be a criminal organisation;

"member", of an organisation, includes an associate member, or prospective member, however described;

"participant", in a criminal organisation, means—

            (a)         if the organisation is a body corporate—a director or officer of the body corporate; or

            (b)         a person who (whether by words or conduct, or in any other way) asserts, declares or advertises his or her membership of, or association with, the organisation; or

            (c)         a person who (whether by words or conduct, or in any other way) seeks to be a member of, or to be associated with, the organisation; or

            (d)         a person who attends more than 1 meeting or gathering of persons who participate in the affairs of the organisation in any way; or

            (e)         a person who takes part in the affairs of the organisation in any other way,

but does not include a lawyer acting in a professional capacity;

"prescribed event" means an event declared by regulation to be a prescribed event;

"prescribed place" means a place declared by regulation to be a prescribed place;

"public place" means—

            (a)         a place, or part of a place, that the public is entitled to use, is open to members of the public or is used by the public, whether or not on payment of money; or

            (b)         a place, or part of a place, the occupier of which allows, whether or not on payment of money, members of the public to enter;

"recruit", a person, to become a participant in a criminal organisation, includes counsel, procure, solicit, incite and induce the person, including by promoting the organisation, to become a participant in the organisation;

"serious criminal activity" has the same meaning as in the Serious and Organised Crime (Control) Act 2008 .

        (2)         Each regulation made under subsection (1) for the purposes of the definitions of "criminal organisation", "prescribed event" or " prescribed place" and required to be laid before each House of Parliament in accordance with the Legislative Instruments Act 1978 may only relate to 1 entity, 1 event or 1 place (as the case may require).

        (3)         The Governor may only make a regulation declaring an entity to be a criminal organisation for the purposes of paragraph (c) of the definition of "criminal organisation in subsection (1) on the recommendation of the Minister.

        (4)         A recommendation of the Minister in relation to an entity for the purposes of subsection (3) may only be made—

            (a)         after the receipt of a report of the Committee in relation to the entity under section 83GB (and, in such a case, the recommendation must include a statement as to the opinion of the Committee on whether or not the entity should be declared a criminal organisation for the purposes of this Division); or

            (b)         after the passage of 10 days after a referral in relation to the entity was made to the Committee by the Minister under section 83GB(1).

        (5)         The Minister may, in deciding whether to make a recommendation for the purposes of subsection (3), have regard to the following matters:

            (a)         if the Minister has received a report of the Committee in relation to the entity—the report of the Committee;

            (b)         any information suggesting a link exists between the entity and serious criminal activity;

            (c)         any convictions recorded in relation to—

                  (i)         current or former participants in the entity; or

                  (ii)         persons who associate, or have associated, with participants in the entity;

            (d)         any information suggesting current or former participants in the entity have been, or are, involved in serious criminal activity (whether directly or indirectly and whether or not the involvement has resulted in any convictions);

            (e)         any information suggesting participants in an interstate or overseas chapter or branch (however described) of the entity have as their purpose, or 1 of their purposes, organising, planning, facilitating, supporting or engaging in serious criminal activity;

            (f)         any other matter the Minister considers relevant.

        (5a)         No obligation to provide procedural fairness exists in relation to the making of a declaration by regulation that—

            (a)         an entity is a criminal organisation for the purposes of paragraph (c) of the definition of "criminal organisation" in subsection (1); or

            (b)         an event is a prescribed event for the purposes of the definition of "prescribed event" in subsection (1); or

            (c)         a place is a prescribed place for the purposes of the definition of "prescribed place" in subsection (1).

        (6)         Section 10A of the Legislative Instruments Act 1978 does not apply in relation to a regulation made under paragraph (c) of the definition of "criminal organisation" in subsection (1).

        (7)         For the avoidance of doubt, nothing prevents the regulations declaring as a criminal organisation an entity that is, at the time of the declaration, based interstate or overseas and not operating in this State.

        (8)         A change in the name or membership of a criminal organisation does not affect its status as a criminal organisation.

        (9)         If the members of a criminal organisation (the "original organisation ) substantially re-form themselves into another organisation, that organisation is taken to form a part of the original organisation (whether or not the original organisation is dissolved).



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