Queensland Consolidated Acts

POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 777

777 Police officer may authorise tow

(1) This section applies if a police officer arranges for a motor vehicle impounded or forfeited to the State under division 2 to be moved to a holding yard.

(2) A police officer may sign a towing authority for the motor vehicle.

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

(a) if the police 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" , in relation to a motor vehicle, means a document that states that a particular person is authorised to tow the vehicle.