Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

PROCEEDS OF CRIME ACT 1991 NO 103 (REPEALED) - SECT 76

    (1)         A person who engages in organised fraud commits an offence.

Maximum penalty: 1 500 penalty units, imprisonment for 15 years or both.

    (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:

"public fraud offence" means an offence against the Crimes (Offences against the Government) Act 1989 , section 8 or the Crimes Act, section 184.