Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PROCEEDS OF CRIME ACT 2002 - SECT 297

    The following are purposes of the * Confiscated Assets Account:

  (a)   making any payments by way of financial assistance to the States or * self - governing Territories that the Minister considers are appropriate under the * equitable sharing program;

  (aa)   making any payments to foreign countries that the Minister considers are appropriate under the equitable sharing program;

  (ab)   making any payments by way of financial assistance to the States or self - governing Territories in accordance with the * national cooperative scheme on unexplained wealth;

  (ac)   making any payments to foreign countries in accordance with the national cooperative scheme on unexplained wealth;

  (b)   making any payments under a program approved by the Minister under section   298;

  (ba)   transferring amounts to the * Federation Reform Fund in accordance with section   298E for the purposes of making grants to the States and Territories under section   298A;

  (c)   making any payments that the Minister administering the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987 considers necessary to satisfy the Commonwealth's obligations in respect of:

  (i)   a registered * foreign forfeiture order; or

  (ii)   an order registered under section   45 of the International War Crimes Tribunals Act 1995 ; or

  (iii)   a registered * foreign pecuniary penalty order;

  (d)   making any payments to a State or to a self - governing Territory that the Minister administering the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987 considers necessary following a crediting to the Account under paragraph   296(1)(b) of money received from a foreign country;

  (e)   paying the * Official Trustee amounts that were payable to the Official Trustee under regulations made for the purposes of paragraph   288(1)(a) or (b);

  (ea)   paying the Official Trustee amounts that were payable to the Official Trustee under regulations made for the purposes of subsection   9B(1) of the Crimes Act 1914 ;

  (f)   paying the annual management fee for the Official Trustee as specified in the regulations;

  (faa)   making any payments in discharge of an * associated GST entity's liability to pay * GST in connection with a disposal under section   70 or 100;

  (fa)   making any payments the Commonwealth is directed to make by an order under paragraph   55(2)(a), section   72, paragraph   73(2)(d), section   77 or 94A, subparagraph   102(d)(ii) or section   179L;

  (g)   making any payments under an arrangement under paragraph   88(1)(b) or subsection   289(2);

  (ga)   making any payments in relation to the conduct of an * examination, so long as the payments have been approved by the * responsible authority for the * principal order, or application for a principal order, in relation to which the examination was conducted;

  (h)   making any payments to a * legal aid commission under Part   4 - 2.