Queensland Consolidated Acts

LAND ACT 1994 - SECT 390ZS

390ZS How property may be dealt with

(1) This section applies if, under section 390ZR , a thing becomes the property of the State.

(2) The chief executive may deal with the thing as the chief executive considers appropriate, including, for example, by destroying it or giving it away.

(3) The chief executive must not deal with the thing in a way that could prejudice the outcome of an appeal against the forfeiture under this chapter.

(4) If the chief executive sells the thing, the chief executive must, after deducting the costs of the sale, make reasonable efforts to return the proceeds of the sale to the former owner of the thing.

(5) For subsection (4) , the
"costs of the sale" include the amount of any costs reasonably incurred, after the thing was forfeited or transferred to the State, in storing or transporting the thing.

(6) This section is subject to any disposal order made for the thing.