Queensland Consolidated Acts

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT) ACT 1995 - SECT 158

158 Recovery of costs from convicted person

(1) A court convicting a person of an offence against this Act about the transport of dangerous goods may order the person to pay to a government entity or the State any of the following—

(a) costs that have been reasonably incurred in investigating and prosecuting the offence including, for example, collecting, packaging, testing, transporting, storing, destroying the dangerous goods or other evidence;

(b) costs that, after the conviction, will be reasonably incurred in collecting, packaging, testing, transporting, storing, destroying, selling or otherwise disposing of the dangerous goods or other evidence, whether or not there is an order under section 161 for forfeiture of the dangerous goods or other things.

(2) An amount ordered to be paid under subsection (1) is a debt owing to the entity or the State.

(3) Subsection (1) is in addition to any other order the court may make.

(4) A document purporting to be signed by any of the following stating details of the costs that have been or will be reasonably incurred for a matter mentioned in subsection (1) is evidence of the costs—

(a) for the department—the chief executive;

(b) for another government entity—the person who is the chief executive or otherwise responsible for the entity.