Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL PROCEEDS CONFISCATION ACT 2002 - SECT 215

215 Procedural matters about forfeiture

(1) A person who is in possession of property forfeited to the State under this Act or documents of title to forfeited property must give the property or documents of title to a person authorised by the Attorney-General on the authorised person’s demand.

(2) A person who gives property or documents of title to property to an authorised person under subsection (1) is discharged from any duty or obligation to anyone else for the disposal of the property or documents of title and from all liability that, apart from this subsection, might have arisen because of the giving of the property or documents of title.

(3) The registrar of titles and anybody else who is required or permitted to keep a register about dealings with property must, if asked and given sufficient evidence of the forfeiture of property to the State under this Act, make in the register the entries necessary to record—

(a) the forfeiture to and vesting in the State of the property; or

(b) if the Attorney-General directs—the public trustee as the holder of the property on trust for the State.

(4) Subsection (3) applies—

(a) despite any other Act; and

(b) even if the relevant document of title is not produced.