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PREVENTION OF ORGANISED CRIME AMENDMENT BILL


To amend the Prevention of Organised Crime Act, 2004 so as to substitute and insert new definitions; to provide for the exclusion of a conviction on a predicate offence as a ground for committing the offence of money laundering; to provide for the offences of smuggling of migrants, illicit trafficking of stolen goods, piracy and related offences; to provide for the seizure of pirate ships or aircrafts; to provide for the forfeiture of intended instrumentalities of offences and unexplained assets; to provide for condonation after cessation of impossibility to give notice; to provide for staff members to perform certain functions in relation to property; to provide for the allocation of money from the Fund to the Financial Intelligence Centre or supervisory bodies and recommendations for such allocation under the powers and functions of the Committee; to extend the investigation powers of the Inspector-General to the Director-General of the Anti-Corruption Commission; to subject banking institutions to property tracking orders; to provide for the seizure of tainted property without a warrant; to extend the police powers of requesting for information to authorised officers of the Anti-Corruption Commission and to include banking institutions as body from which information may be requested from; to provide authority for the Prosecutor-General to carry out functions as a legal practitioner as Government Attorney's office in certain cases; and to provide for incidental matters.


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Motivation_by_Hon_Dausab_on_the_Prevention_of_Organised_Crime_Amendment.pdf
Minutes on PREVENTION OF ORGANISED CRIME AMENDMENT BILL

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