Confiscation of assets and forfeiture of proceeds of crime to be disregarded in sentencing
24B Confiscation of assets and forfeiture of proceeds of crime to be disregarded in sentencing
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.
In this section—
confiscation or forfeiture legislation means the following—
the Confiscation of Proceeds of Crime Act 1989,
the Criminal Assets Recovery Act 1990,
the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 of the Commonwealth,
any other law prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition.
This provision refers to the regulations (prescribed by the regulations
). Made under this Act:
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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