PREVENTION OF ORGANISED CRIME

PREVENTION OF ORGANISED CRIME ACT 121 OF 1998
Commencement Date of Act: 21 January 1999
Date Modified by Sabinet: 20080925
Category: Procedures - Criminal Law
Note: Decided cases updated
Description: To introduce measures to combat organised crime, money laundering and criminal gang activities; to prohibit certain activities relating to racketeering activities; to provide for the prohibition of money laundering and for an obligation to report certain information; to criminalise certain activities associated with gangs; to provide for the recovery of the proceeds of unlawful activity; for the civil forfeiture of criminal property that has been used to commit an offence, property that is the proceeds of unlawful activity or property that is owned or controlled by, or on behalf of, an entity involved in terrorist and related activities; to provide for the establishment of a Criminal Assets Recovery Account; to amend the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act, 1992; to amend the International Co-operation in Criminal Matters Act, 1996; to repeal the Proceeds of Crime Act, 1996; to incorporate the provisions contained in the Proceeds of Crime Act, 1996; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
Database: Netlaw: SA Legislation

A copy of the act can be found here, on the website of The National Prosecuting Authority of South Africa