171 Miscellaneous commercial offences

Miscellaneous commercial offences include business, corporate, or other commercial offences that do not involve physical harm, deception, trafficking, fraud, pollution, sale of stolen goods, or breach of health and safety regulations.

Import and export offences include the movement of prohibited or controlled goods or other products across international borders, other than weapons, explosives, child abuse material, drugs, animals, or plants.

• Fail to declare goods
• Unlawful import or export of alcohol, tobacco, or similar products
• Unlawful import or export of commercial products other than weapons, explosives, child abuse materials, drugs, animals, or plants
• Other import and export offences

• Breach animal quarantine regulations – coded to 1691 Plant and animal quarantine offences
• International trafficking of drugs – coded to the relevant groups within 091 International drug trafficking
• International trafficking of weapons or explosives – coded to the relevant groups within 101 International trafficking of weapons or explosives
• Import or export child abuse material including child-like sex dolls – coded to 0341 Produce or distribute child abuse material
• Unlawful trafficking of animals or animal parts such as ivory, pelts, or shells into or from Australia or New Zealand – coded to 1622 Parks and wildlife offences

Financial management or corporate governance offences include breaches of regulations relating to the financial management or governance of an organisation, excluding where fraud, deception or corruption occurs. The organisation may be a business, non-profit organisation, or any other incorporated entity. 

• Breach corporate governance regulation
• Breach director’s duties, excluding corruption or other deception
• Breach financial regulations
• Breach regulation relating to the management of a corporation
• Criminal misconduct by company officers not elsewhere classified
• Criminal misconduct in the provision of financial services not elsewhere classified
• Operate an unlicenced financial services business or unregistered managed investment scheme
• Other financial management or corporate governance offences

• Breach building regulations or municipal planning regulations – coded to 1721 Construction and land use offences
• Food safety offences – coded to 1231 Sanitation or disease offences
• Intentional misappropriation of finances – coded to 0823 Embezzlement
• Misuse of finances amounting to corruption – coded to 0839 Corruption, nec
• Offences relating to licences to operate vehicles including heavy vehicles and marine vessels – coded to the relevant groups within 133 Driver licence offences
• Record information known to be false or misleading – coded to 0821 Fraudulent trade practices
• Theft of electricity, water, or other product from a utility provider or customer – coded to the relevant groups within 0799 Theft, nec

This group is for offences relating to the purchase or sale of sexual services, where the act is unlawful due to a breach of regulation, or the location of the act.

Sexual services include private sex work, street-based sex work, sex work through an escort agency or as a private escort, or where a worker provides sexual services at a brothel, club, or erotic massage parlour. It does not include livestreaming, chat services, phone sex, or other non-contact sexual services delivered through a digital platform.

• Breach regulatory requirements relating to sex work
• Offences related to the prevention of “pimping”
• Operation of an unregistered brothel or other venue providing sexual services
• Own or manage an unlicenced or unregistered brothel
• Prostitution offences related to the buying or selling of sexual services
• Purchase or sale of sexual services in a jurisdiction where this is disallowed
• Purchase or sale of sexual services, or operation of a brothel, outside an approved area or municipal zone
• Unlawful soliciting or consorting offences related to sex work
• Working in an unregistered brothel or other venue providing sexual services
• Other offences relating to the unlawful purchase or sale of sexual services

• Assault or sexual assault of a sex worker – coded to the relevant groups within 02 Assault or 031 Sexual assault of an adult
• Create or distribute unlawful sexual content, excluding child abuse material – coded to 0399 Sexual offences, nec
• Presence of a child onsite at a brothel – coded to 0399 Sexual offences, nec
• Record or provide information known to be false or misleading – coded to 0821 Fraudulent trade practices
• Purchase of sexual services from a child– coded to 0321 Unlawful sexual penetration of a child
• Sexual servitude or sex work in slavery-like conditions – coded to 0410 Human trafficking or slavery

This group is for miscellaneous commercial offences not elsewhere classified. 

• Demand or receive payment for building without insurance
• Interfere with the provision of electricity or other utilities during commercial activities, excluding theft or property damage
• Unlawfully undertake building or trades work without a licence
• Other miscellaneous commercial offences not elsewhere classified

• Commercial offences involving deception or fraud – coded to the relevant group in 082 Deceptive business practices