Queensland Consolidated Acts

SALE OF GOODS ACT 1896 - SECT 26

26 Revesting of property in stolen goods on conviction of offender

(1) When goods have been stolen and the offender is prosecuted to conviction, the property in the goods so stolen revests in the person who was the owner of the goods, or the person’s personal representative, notwithstanding any intermediate dealing with them.

(2) Notwithstanding any enactment to the contrary, when goods have been obtained by fraud or other wrongful means not amounting to stealing, the property in such goods does not revest in the person who was the owner of the goods, or the person’s personal representative, by reason only of the conviction of the offender.