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Australian Crime Commission Legislation (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2018
The Government has introduced legislation into Parliament to manage the consequences of the merger
between the Australian Crime Commission and the CrimTrac organisation.
To counter serious and organised crime in Australia, the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) was
established under the Commonwealth’s Australian Crime Commission Act 2002. The functions of the
ACC include:
collecting and analysing criminal intelligence
setting national criminal intelligence priorities
providing and maintaining criminal intelligence systems
investigating federally relevant criminal activity
undertaking taskforces in conjunction with state and territory police.
CrimTrac was the national information-sharing service for Australia’s police, law enforcement and
national security agencies. The agency was established in 2000 under an Inter-Governmental Agreement
(IGA), as a Commonwealth Executive Agency and collaborative partnership between the
Commonwealth, states and territories.
On 1 July 2016, Commonwealth legislation took effect merging CrimTrac into the ACC. The ACC now
performs the previous functions of CrimTrac including providing national police information systems
and services to police and other eligible bodies and nationally coordinated criminal history checks to
accredited agencies. The merged organisation is still identified as the Australian Crime Commission in
the Commonwealth ACC Act.
As a result of the merger, a number of consequential amendments are required to Tasmanian Acts that
authorise, or facilitate, the release of information to CrimTrac, allowing those bodies to instead send
that information to the ACC. The following Acts currently authorise the release of information, in certain
circumstances, to CrimTrac.
the Annulled Convictions Act 2003
the Firearms Act 1996
the Forensic Procedures Act 2000
the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (Tasmania) Act 2010.
This Bill amends the above Acts, removing references to CrimTrac, and where required, replacing them
with references to the Australian Crime Commission. The Bill also includes transitional arrangements to
ensure that any agreements made between Tasmanian government agencies and CrimTrac are also
deemed to be equivalent agreements with the Australian Crime Commission.
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