New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (SENTENCING PROCEDURE) ACT 1999 - SECT 24B

24B Confiscation of assets and forfeiture of proceeds of crime to be disregarded in sentencing

(1) In sentencing an offender, the court must not take into account, as a mitigating factor in sentencing, the consequences for the offender of any order of a court imposed because of the offence under confiscation or forfeiture legislation.

(2) In this section--

"confiscation or forfeiture legislation" means the following--

(a) the Confiscation of Proceeds of Crime Act 1989 ,

(b) the Criminal Assets Recovery Act 1990 ,

(c) the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 of the Commonwealth,

(d) any other law prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition.