Annual Report - COMPLETE - Australian Crime Commission

Appendix G: FOI Statement
Freedom of Information
Statement under section 8 of the Freedom of Information Act
Section 8 of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cwlth) requires agencies to publish
annually statements containing particulars and information about their organisation,
functions, decision making powers, consultative arrangements, categories of
documents maintained and facilities and procedures to enable members of the public
to obtain access to documents under the FOI Act. These statements are required
by the FOI Act to be included in the annual report of each agency.
The following statement is correct to 30 June 2004.
Establishment
The ACC was established by the Australian Crime Commission Act 2002,
and commenced operations on 1 January 2003. The ACC was created by the
amalgamation of the former agencies, the National Crime Authority, the Australian
Bureau of Criminal Intelligence and the Office of Strategic Crime Assessments.
Organisation
The ACC is a Commonwealth statutory body established under Section 7(1) of the
Australian Crime Commission Act 2002 (ACC Act), and a prescribed agency for the
purposes of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 (FMA Act).
Section 7(2) of the ACC Act states that the ACC consists of
(a) the CEO;
(b) the examiners; and
(c) the members of the staff of the ACC.
The ACC’s functions are listed under section 7(A) of the Act. They are:
(a) to collect, correlate, analyse and disseminate criminal information and intelligence
and to maintain a national database of that information and intelligence;
(b) to undertake, when authorised by the ACC Board, intelligence operations;
(c) to investigate, when authorised by the ACC Board, matters relating to federally
relevant criminal activity;
(d) to provide reports to the ACC Board on the outcomes of those operations and
investigations;
(e) to provide strategic criminal intelligence assessments, and any other criminal
information and intelligence, to the ACC Board;
(f) to provide advice to the ACC Board on national criminal intelligence priorities;
(g) such other functions as are conferred on the ACC by other provisions of this Act
or by any other Act.
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