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Criminal Organisations Control Act 2012 (WA)

An Act to — * provide for the making of declarations and control orders for the purpose of disrupting and restricting the activities of organisations involved in serious criminal activity, their members and associates, and the imposition of criminal sanctions on persons who recruit members for such organisations or finance or support them in other ways; and * amend The Criminal Code to create certain offences relating to participating in the activities of a criminal organisation, and instructing the commission of offences for the benefit of, at the direction of or in association with a criminal organisation; and * amend the Criminal Property Confiscation Act 2000 to enable the confiscation of crime‑derived or unlawfully acquired property if a person who is a controlled person or a member of a declared criminal organisation is involved in the commission of an offence; and * amend the Evidence Act 1906 to provide special protections to victims and prosecution witnesses in proceedings for certain offences involving criminal organisations; and * amend the Misuse of Drugs Act 1981 to enable the making of a drug trafficker declaration if, at the time of the commission of certain drug offences, the offender was a member of a declared criminal organisation; and * amend the Sentencing Act 1995 to require the imposition of mandatory minimum sentences on offenders who commit certain offences at the direction of, in association with or for the benefit of a declared criminal organisation, and make such offenders ineligible for parole; and * make related amendments to various Acts, * and for related purposes.