Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL PROCEEDS CONFISCATION ACT 2002 - SECT 31

31 Making restraining order

(1) The Supreme Court must make a restraining order in relation to property if, after considering the application and the relevant affidavit, it is satisfied there are reasonable grounds for the suspicion on which the application is based.

(2) However, the court may refuse to make the order if—

(a) the court is satisfied in the particular circumstances it is not in the public interest to make the order; or

(b) the State fails to give the court the undertakings the court considers appropriate for the payment of damages or costs, or both, in relation to the making and operation of the order.

(3) The commission or, if the application is made by a police officer, the commissioner of the police service may, for the State, give the court the undertakings the court requires.

(4) A restraining order does not apply to property of a person acquired after the order is made unless the order expressly states it applies to the property.

(5) Also, the making of a restraining order does not prevent the person whose property is restrained under the order from giving Legal Aid a charge over the property as a condition of an approval to give legal assistance under the Legal Aid Act in relation to—

(a) a proceeding under this Act; or

(b) a criminal proceeding in which the person is a defendant, including any proceeding on appeal against conviction or sentence.