Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL PROCEEDS CONFISCATION ACT 2002 - SECT 37A

37A Hearing of application

(1) The Supreme Court must not hear an application for an order under section 37 unless satisfied the person who is, or whose property is, the subject of the application has received reasonable notice of the application.

(2) Despite subsection (1) , the court must consider an application for an investigation order without notice having been given if the DPP asks the court to do so.

(3) However, the Supreme Court may, at any time before finally deciding the application, direct the State to give notice of the application to a stated person or class of persons in the way, and within the time, the court considers appropriate.

(4) A person who is, or whose property is, the subject of the application, and anyone else who claims to have an interest in the property, may appear at the hearing of the application.