Crimes Legislation Amendment (Economic Disruption) Act 2021 (3 of 2021)

Schedule 1   Money laundering

Part 1   General amendments

Division 1   Amendments

Criminal Code Act 1995

75   Subsection 400.13(1) of the Criminal Code

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(1) To avoid doubt, it is not necessary, in order to prove for the purposes of this Division that money or property is proceeds of general crime, to establish that:

(a) a particular offence, or an offence of a particular kind, was committed in relation to the money or property; or

(b) a particular person committed an offence, or an offence of a particular kind, in relation to the money or property.

(1A) To avoid doubt, it is not necessary, in order to prove for the purposes of this Division that money or property is proceeds of indictable crime covered by paragraph (a) of the definition of proceeds of indictable crime in subsection 400.1(1), to establish that a particular person committed an offence in relation to the money or property.

(1B) To avoid doubt, it is not necessary, in order to prove for the purposes of this Division that money or property is proceeds of indictable crime covered by paragraph (b) of the definition of proceeds of indictable crime in subsection 400.1(1), to establish that:

(a) a particular offence was committed in relation to the money or property; or

(b) a particular person committed an offence in relation to the money or property.