Western Australian Current Acts

CORRUPTION, CRIME AND MISCONDUCT ACT 2003 - SECT 7B

7B .         How Act’s purposes to be achieved

        (1)         The Act’s purposes are to be achieved primarily by establishing a permanent commission to be called the Corruption and Crime Commission.

        (2)         The Commission is to be able to authorise the use of investigative powers not ordinarily available to the police service to effectively investigate particular cases of organised crime.

        (3)         The Act’s purpose in relation to misconduct is to be achieved by conferring functions on the Commission and on the Public Sector Commissioner.

        (4)         The Commission is to be able to investigate cases of serious misconduct.

        (5)         The Public Sector Commissioner is to be able to investigate cases of minor misconduct.

        (6)         The Commission and the Public Sector Commissioner are to help public authorities to prevent, and to identify and deal effectively and appropriately with, misconduct.

        (7)         The Commission is to be able to investigate matters in relation to unexplained wealth and criminal benefits for the purpose of the exercise of its functions under the Criminal Property Confiscation Act 2000 .

        [Section 7B inserted: No. 78 of 2003 s. 7(2); amended: No. 35 of 2014 s. 8; No. 10 of 2018 s. 7.]