Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL PROCEEDS CONFISCATION ACT 2002 - SECT 269

269 Incomplete proceedings for old orders

(1) A proceeding started under the old Act for an old order and not finally decided immediately before the commencement of this section may be continued and decided under this Act as if it were a proceeding started under this Act for a corresponding new order.

(2) Any step taken in the proceeding for the old order is as valid and effective as if it had been taken in a proceeding for the new order.

(3) The court hearing the proceeding may make the orders under this Act the court considers appropriate.

(4) However, if the proceeding was started in a court other than the Supreme Court and the proceeding is a proceeding that may only be started in the Supreme Court under this Act, the proceeding may be continued under the old Act as if this Act had not been enacted.