Statistics about relevant legislation and partner agencies
The following tables provide statistics covering relevant legislation and referring agencies in relation to matters dealt with in 2019–20.
LEGISLATION | SUMMARY (CHARGES) | INDICTABLE (CHARGES) |
|---|---|---|
Airports (Control of On-Airport Activities) Regulations 1997 (Cth) | 5 | 0 |
Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (Cth) | 1 | 12 |
Australian Citizenship Act 2007 (Cth) | 1 | 0 |
Australian Crime Commission Act 2002 (Cth) | 0 | 2 |
Australian Passports Act 2005 (Cth) | 6 | 5 |
Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 (Cth) | 1 | 0 |
Aviation Transport Security Act 2004 (Cth) | 3 | 0 |
Aviation Transport Security Regulations 2005 (Cth) | 7 | 0 |
Bankruptcy Act 1966 (Cth) | 235 | 19 |
Biosecurity Act 2015 (Cth) | 27 | 20 |
Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 (Cth) | 0 | 5 |
Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988 (Cth) | 1 | 0 |
Civil Aviation Act 1988 (Cth) | 27 | 0 |
Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 (Cth) | 24 | 0 |
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 (Cth) | 18 | 0 |
Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995 (Cth) | 2 | 0 |
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (Cth) | 1 | 0 |
Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) | 0 | 1 |
Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) | 3 | 0 |
Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (Cth) | 3 | 0 |
Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) | 115 | 40 |
Crimes (Aviation) Act 1991 (Cth) | 17 | 3 |
Crimes (Currency) Act 1981 (Cth) | 54 | 33 |
Crimes (Foreign Incursions and Recruitment) Act 1978 (Cth) | 0 | 2 |
Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) | 8 | 37 |
Criminal Code (Cth) | 1757 | 1878 |
Criminal Code 2007 (Norfolk Island) | 5 | 32 |
Customs Act 1901 (CI) (Cth) | 13 | 55 |
Customs Act 1901 (Cth) | 56 | 46 |
Defence Act 1903 (Cth) | 2 | 0 |
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) | 10 | 25 |
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000 (Cth) | 28 | 0 |
Excise Act 1901 (Cth) | 13 | 4 |
Export Control Act 1982 (Cth) | 0 | 72 |
Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) | 0 | 1 |
Firearms and Prohibited Weapons Act 1997 (Norfolk Island) | 5 | 0 |
Fisheries Management Act 1991 (Cth) | 11 | 3 |
Foreign Passports (Law Enforcement and Security) Act 2005 (Cth) | 1 | 1 |
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 (Cth) | 19 | 0 |
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations 1983 (Cth) | 19 | 0 |
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations 2019 (Cth) | 5 | 0 |
Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989 (Cth) | 5 | 0 |
Health Insurance Act 1973 (Cth) | 0 | 2 |
Historic Shipwrecks Regulations 2018 (Cth) | 2 | 0 |
Jervis Bay Territory Marine Safety Ordinance 2016 (Cth) | 1 | 0 |
Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Act 2006 (Cth) | 3 | 0 |
Marine Safety (Domestic Commercial Vessel) National Law Act 2012 (Cth) | 10 | 0 |
Marriage Act 1961 (Cth) | 1 | 0 |
Migration Act 1958 (Cth) | 15 | 16 |
National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 (Cth) | 7 | 0 |
National Measurement Act 1960 (Cth) | 2 | 0 |
Navigation Act 2012 (Cth) | 1 | 0 |
Passports Act 1938 (Cth) | 0 | 1 |
Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991 (Cth) | 8 | 0 |
Protection of the Sea (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Act 1983 (Cth) | 1 | 0 |
Quarantine Act 1908 (Cth) | 11 | 26 |
Radiocommunications Act 1992 (Cth) | 1 | 2 |
Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 (Cth) | 21 | 0 |
Social Security Act 1991 (Cth) | 7 | 0 |
Statutory Declarations Act 1959 (Cth) | 2 | 2 |
Summary Offences Act 2005 (Norfolk Island) | 1 | 0 |
Taxation Administration Act 1953 (Cth) | 187 | 0 |
Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 (Cth) | 6 | 0 |
Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth) | 1 | 0 |
Traffic Act 2010 (Norfolk Island) | 17 | 0 |
Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Cth) | 9 | 0 |
Non‑Commonwealth Legislation | 301 | 881 |
Total | 3123 | 3226 |
The table below contains names of Commonwealth agencies as at 30 June 2020. In addition to the matters listed there were two private prosecutions, which the Director took over and discontinued as there was insufficient evidence for the charges to proceed.
REFERRING AGENCY | SUMMARY | INDICTABLE |
|---|---|---|
Australian Border Force | 31 | 61 |
Australian Building and Construction Commission | 0 | 0 |
Australian Bureau of Statistics | 0 | 0 |
Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity | 4 | 0 |
Australian Communications and Media Authority | 0 | 0 |
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission * | 0 | 1 |
Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission * | 0 | 1 |
Australian Electoral Commission | 1 | 0 |
Australian Federal Police | 236 | 326 |
Australian Financial Security Authority | 99 | 3 |
Australian Fisheries Management Authority | 11 | 2 |
Australian Maritime Safety Authority | 8 | 0 |
Australian Securities and Investments Commission | 23 | 20 |
Australian Taxation Office | 26 | 25 |
Civil Aviation Safety Authority | 12 | 0 |
Clean Energy Regulator | 2 | 1 |
COMCARE | 4 | 0 |
Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment * | 19 | 11 |
Department of Defence | 1 | 1 |
Department of Education, Skills and Employment * | 3 | 0 |
Department of Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business | 0 | 0 |
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade | 5 | 0 |
Department of Health | 6 | 4 |
Department of Home Affairs ** | 3 | 0 |
Department of Industry, Innovation and Science | 1 | 0 |
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Cities and Regional Development | 0 | 0 |
Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet | 0 | 0 |
Department of Social Services * | 1 | 1 |
Department of the Environment and Energy | 0 | 0 |
Department of Veterans' Affairs | 0 | 0 |
Director of National Parks | 0 | 0 |
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority | 37 | 0 |
National Disability Insurance Agency * | 0 | 1 |
National Measurement Institute | 1 | 0 |
Non Commonwealth Agencies | 123 | 254 |
Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations | 2 | 0 |
Services Australia | 10 | 0 |
Services Australia ‑ Centrelink | 409 | 34 |
Services Australia ‑ Child Support Agency | 0 | 0 |
Services Australia ‑ Medicare | 72 | 0 |
Therapeutic Goods Administration | 0 | 0 |
Total | 1150 | 746 |
*New agency on list
**Merged with another agency
‘Defendants dealt with’ includes not only convictions and findings of guilt, but also: matters resulting in acquittals; prosecutions that are discontinued in accordance with the Prosecution Policy of the
Commonwealth based on evidentiary or public interest considerations; discontinuances as part of a charge negotiation; when a matter scheduled for trial resolves into a guilty plea; when there is a hung jury; a warrant has been issued and the defendant has absconded; and determinations that a defendant is unfit to be tried. It also includes matters where a charge is issued but is unable to be served, and prosecutions commenced in one jurisdiction and recommenced in another because a defendant has moved. It does not include: matters where the CDPP has provided pre‑brief advice to an investigative agency; brief assessments that do not proceed to prosecution on evidentiary or public interest grounds; breach proceedings; or matters determined on appeal.
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