Types of Offences Section 2 (1) of the Identification of Criminals Act applies to persons charged with an indictable or hybrid offences.
Not exact matches
Criminal
offences committed on an Austrian ship or aeroplane are subject to the StGB, as are certain
offences regardless
of the criminal law
of the place
of the
offence, including economic espionage, criminal
offences against an Austrian official, human trafficking, terrorism, corruption and several other
types of major crimes (
section 64 StGB).
Canada has a standalone bid - rigging provision under
section 47
of the Competition Act (the «Act») unlike some other major jurisdictions where bid - rigging is treated as another
type of general cartel
offence.
«In appropriate cases prosecutions may be brought where it is not possible for the Crown to prove by direct evidence the involvement
of the defendant in the commission
of specific
offences nor the receipt
of monies by him arising out
of the commission
of specific criminal
offences... Whilst the prosecution must prove that the property is «criminal property» within the meaning
of the statutory definition, there is nothing in the wording
of the
section which imports any further requirement that the property emanated from a particular crime or a specific
type of criminal conduct.»
In shifting the focus
of criminal liability from a person's conduct to their associations,
offences of this
type unduly burden freedom
of association and are likely to have a disproportionately harsh effect on certain
sections of the population who, simply because
of their familial or community connections, may be exposed to the risk
of criminal sanction.