Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL PROCEEDS CONFISCATION ACT 2002 - SECT 58A

58A Forfeiture order relating to external serious crime related activity

(1) An application for a forfeiture order that relates to property of a prescribed respondent suspected of having engaged in 1 or more external serious crime related activities may be made only if the prescribed respondent lives in Queensland or the property is situated in Queensland.

(2) The Supreme Court may not make the forfeiture order unless it is satisfied that no action has been taken under a law of the Commonwealth or any place outside Queensland, including outside Australia, against the property of the prescribed respondent that is the subject of the application as a result of the external serious crime related activity.

(3) For subsection (2) , an affidavit of an appropriate officer that includes a statement that the officer has made due enquiry and is satisfied that no action has been taken under a law of the Commonwealth or any place outside Queensland, including outside Australia, against property of the prescribed respondent that is the subject of the application as a result of the external serious crime related activity is proof, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, of the matters contained in the affidavit.