Crimes Legislation Amendment (Powers, Offences and Other Measures) Bill 2017 [2017] AUSStaCSBSD 125 (10 May 2017)

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Purpose	This bill seeks to amend the Australian Federal Police Act 1979, Crimes Act 1914, and the Criminal Code Act 1995 to: • clarify the functions of the Australian Federal Police; • clarify the custody notification obligations of investigating officials when they intend to question an Aboriginal person or Torres Strait Islander; • create separate offence regimes for 'insiders' and 'outsiders' for the disclosure of information relating to controlled operations; • increase the maximum applicable penalties for breach of the general dishonesty offences; • remove an obsolete reference to the death penalty; • amend protections for vulnerable witnesses and complainants in Commonwealth criminal proceedings; • authorise collection, use and disclosure of information for the purposes of preventing, detecting, investigating, or dealing with fraud or corruption against the Commonwealth and establish safeguards to ensure these measures do not unduly interfere with privacy; and • permit the New South Wales Law Enforcement Conduct Commission to use and disclose spent conviction information under the Commonwealth spent convictions scheme
Portfolio	Justice
Introduced	House of Representatives on 30 March 2017

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