Queensland Consolidated Acts

MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 590

590 Information notice about forfeiture decision

(1) If the chief psychiatrist decides under section 589 (1) to forfeit a thing, the chief psychiatrist must as soon as practicable give a person who owned the thing immediately before the forfeiture (the
"former owner" ) an information notice about the decision.

(2) The information notice may be given by leaving it at the place where the thing was seized, in a conspicuous position and in a reasonably secure way.

(3) The information notice must state that the former owner may apply for a stay of the decision if the former owner appeals against the decision.

(4) However, subsections (1) to (3) do not apply if the place where the thing was seized is—

(a) a public place; or

(b) a place where the notice is unlikely to be read by the former owner.