Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL PROCEEDS CONFISCATION ACT 2002 - SECT 216

216 Filing of forfeiture certificate

(1) This section applies if—

(a) the registrar of the Supreme Court issues a forfeiture certificate; or

(b) a person produces a forfeiture certificate to the registrar of the Supreme Court.

(2) The registrar must file the forfeiture certificate, without payment of fee.

(3) On filing—

(a) the certificate is a record of the Supreme Court; and

(b) the order it mentions is taken to be a judgment of the Supreme Court, properly entered, obtained by the State as plaintiff in an action for the recovery of the property to which the order relates against the person from whom the property has been divested; and

(c) the State may take the proceedings to recover the property that could be taken if the judgment had been given in favour of the State.