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New South Wales
Crimes Legislation Amendment
(Property Identification) Bill 2002
Contents
Page
1 Name of Act 2
2 Commencement 2
3 Amendment of Acts 2
Schedules
1 Amendment of Crimes Act 1900 No 40 3
2 Amendment of Criminal Procedure Act 1986 No 209 4
3 Amendment of Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers
Act 1996 No 13 5
b02-152-p01.833
New South Wales
Crimes Legislation Amendment
(Property Identification) Bill 2002
No , 2002
A Bill for
An Act to amend the Crimes Act 1900 and other Acts with respect to damage to
property that consists of removing, obliterating, defacing or altering the unique
identifier of the property.
Clause 1 Crimes Legislation Amendment (Property Identification) Bill 2002
The Legislature of New South Wales enacts: 1
1 Name of Act 2
This Act is the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Property 3
Identification) Act 2002. 4
2 Commencement 5
This Act commences on a day to be appointed by proclamation. 6
3 Amendment of Acts 7
(1) The Crimes Act 1900 is amended as set out in Schedule 1. 8
(2) The Criminal Procedure Act 1986 is amended as set out in Schedule 2. 9
(3) The Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Act 1996 is amended as 10
set out in Schedule 3. 11
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Crimes Legislation Amendment (Property Identification) Bill 2002
Amendment of Crimes Act 1900 No 40 Schedule 1
Schedule 1 Amendment of Crimes Act 1900 No 40 1
(Section 3 (1)) 2
Section 194 Interpretation 3
Insert after section 194 (3): 4
(4) For the purposes of this Division, damaging property includes 5
removing, obliterating, defacing or altering the unique identifier 6
of the property. The unique identifier is any numbers, letters or 7
symbols that are marked on or attached to the property as a 8
permanent record so as to enable the property to be 9
distinguished from similar property. 10
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Crimes Legislation Amendment (Property Identification) Bill 2002
Schedule 2 Amendment of Criminal Procedure Act 1986 No 209
Schedule 2 Amendment of Criminal Procedure Act 1
1986 No 209 2
(Section 3 (2)) 3
Schedule 1 Indictable offences triable summarily 4
Insert before the heading to Table 1: 5
1A Interpretation 6
For the purposes of this Schedule, a reference to the amount of 7
damage to property in connection with a charge for an offence 8
against section 195 or 197 of the Crimes Act 1900 is a 9
reference to the total value of the property where the damage 10
consists of removing, obliterating, defacing or altering the 11
unique identifier of the property. 12
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Crimes Legislation Amendment (Property Identification) Bill 2002
Amendment of Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Act 1996 No 13 Schedule 3
Schedule 3 Amendment of Pawnbrokers and 1
Second-hand Dealers Act 1996 No 13 2
(Section 3 (3)) 3
Section 19 Duty to report suspicious goods 4
Insert at the end of section 19: 5
(2) If the licensee or employee is aware that the unique identifier 6
of the goods has been removed, obliterated, defaced or altered, 7
the licensee or employee is presumed (for the purposes of this 8
section) to suspect that the goods may have been stolen. 9
(3) In this section, unique identifier of goods means any numbers, 10
letters or symbols that are marked on or attached to the goods 11
as a permanent record so as to enable the goods to be 12
distinguished from similar goods. 13
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