Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL PROCEEDS CONFISCATION ACT 2002 - SECT 8

8 Proceedings are civil, not criminal

(1) This section applies to a proceeding under this Act other than a prosecution for an offence against this Act.

(2) The proceeding is not a criminal proceeding.

(3) Questions of fact in the proceeding must be decided on the balance of probabilities.

(4) The rules of evidence applying in civil proceedings apply to the proceeding.

(5) The rules of construction applying only to the criminal law do not apply in the interpretation of this Act for the proceeding.

(6) The Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999 , to the extent that they are not inconsistent with this Act, apply to the proceeding.