Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL PROCEEDS CONFISCATION ACT 2002 - SECT 185

185 Discharge of pecuniary penalty order to the extent of automatic forfeiture

(1) This section applies to a person who has been convicted of a serious criminal offence and against whom a pecuniary penalty order has been made because of the conviction.

(2) If property of the person is also automatically forfeited to the State because of the conviction, the debt payable under the pecuniary penalty order is discharged to the extent of—

(a) if the property is sold—the value of the proceeds of the sale; or

(b) if the property is not sold—the amount the Attorney-General decides is the reasonable value of the property.