Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIME AND CORRUPTION ACT 2001 - SECT 114

114 Orders magistrate may make in relation to seized thing

The magistrate may, in relation to the seized thing, order—

(a) that it be kept in the possession of the commission or another law enforcement agency—

(i) until the end of any investigation in relation to which the thing may be relevant and for a reasonable time afterwards to enable the commission to decide whether a charge is to be laid; or

(ii) until the end of any proceeding in which the thing may be relevant; or

(iii) until the end of any appeal against a decision in a proceeding in which the thing is relevant; or

(b) that it be returned, or photographed and returned, to its owner or the person who had lawful possession of it before it was seized on condition that the owner or person undertakes to produce it before a court in any later proceeding involving the thing; or

(c) that it be returned to the person who the magistrate believes is lawfully entitled to possess it; or

(d) if the person entitled to possess the thing is unknown, that the thing be disposed of; or

(e) that it be disposed of or destroyed; or

(f) that it be dealt with by way of a proceeding under section 118 or 119 ; or

(g) that it be dealt with by way of proceeding under the Justices Act 1886 , section 39 ; or

(h) that it be disposed of or destroyed in the way the magistrate orders.