Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

PROCEEDS OF CRIME ACT 1991 (NO. 103 OF 1991) - SECT 76

        (a)     if the offender is a natural person—a fine not exceeding $150,000 or imprisonment for a period not exceeding 15 years, or both; or

        (b)     if the offender is a body corporate—a fine not exceeding $750,000.

(2) A person shall be taken to engage in organised fraud only if he or she engages, after the commencement of this Act, in acts or omissions—

        (a)     that constitute 3 or more public fraud offences; and

        (b)     from which the person derives substantial benefit.

(3) Where a person is charged with an offence against subsection (1) in relation to a number of public fraud offences and the jury is not satisfied that the person is guilty of the offence against subsection (1) but is satisfied that the person is guilty of 1 or more of the public fraud offences, the jury shall acquit the person of the offence against subsection (1) and may find the person guilty of that public fraud offence or those public fraud offences and the person is punishable accordingly.

(4) In this section—