Australian Crime Commission Establishment Act 2002 (125 of 2002)

Schedule 1   Amendment of the National Crime Authority Act 1984

Part 2   Transitional provisions

315   Continuation of other NCA investigations

 

(1) This item applies to an investigation (the NCA investigation ) in relation to a federally relevant criminal activity under paragraph 11(1)(b) of the NCA Act that the NCA had commenced but not completed before the commencement time.

      

(2) At and after the commencement time:

(a) the ACC may complete the NCA investigation; and

(b) the NCA investigation is taken, for the purposes of the ACC Act, to be an investigation into matters relating to federally relevant criminal activity.

      

(3) For the purposes of the ACC completing the NCA investigation, at the commencement time:

(a) the Board of the ACC is taken to have authorised, in writing, the ACC to investigate the matters; and

(b) the persons who were carrying out the NCA investigation immediately before the commencement time are taken to be persons participating in the investigation of those matters; and

(c) the person in charge of the NCA investigation immediately before the commencement time is taken to be the head of the investigation into those matters.