Queensland Consolidated Acts

STATE PENALTIES ENFORCEMENT ACT 1999 - SECT 73B

73B Enforcement officer may authorise tow

(1) This section applies if an enforcement officer arranges for a motor vehicle seized under an enforcement warrant to be towed to a holding yard.

(2) An enforcement officer may sign a towing authority for the seized vehicle.

(3) The driver of a tow truck towing the seized motor vehicle under a towing authority must tow the vehicle to—

(a) if the enforcement officer directs the driver to tow the motor vehicle to a particular holding yard—the holding yard; or

(b) if paragraph (a) does not apply—the holding yard to which the driver ordinarily tows motor vehicles.

(4) In this section—

"towing authority" means—

(a) a towing authority under the Tow Truck Act 1973 ; or

(b) another document authorising a person to tow a motor vehicle.