Queensland Consolidated Acts

POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 769

(1) This section states how applied sections 258 and 259 apply for section 768.

(2) Applied section 258 applies as if—

(a) subsections (1) and (9) were omitted; and

(b) a reference in the applied section—

(i) to compensation were a reference to the costs of removing and keeping a motor vehicle impounded under this chapter; and

(ii) to the prosecution were a reference to the applicant for the impounding order or forfeiture order.

(3) Applied section 259 applies as if—

(a) a reference in the applied section—

(i) to compensation were a reference to the costs of removing and keeping a motor vehicle impounded under this chapter; and

(ii) to the prosecution were a reference to the applicant for the impounding order; and

(b) a reference in applied section 259(4) to a show cause hearing is a reference to the hearing and determination of the issue of whether a parent should be ordered, under applied section 259(5), to pay the costs of removing and keeping a motor vehicle impounded under this chapter; and

(c) applied section 259(4), to the extent it mentions the director of public prosecutions, does not apply; and

(d) the expression in applied section 259(5) 'of the matters mentioned in section 258(1)(a), (b) and (c)' read instead as 'that the parent should be ordered to pay the costs of removing and keeping a motor vehicle impounded under the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000, chapter 22'.

(4) Also, in relation to an order made under applied section 259(5)—

(a) the Youth Justice Act 1992, section 260 does not apply to that order; and

(b) the order is taken instead to be an order fining a person for an offence for the purposes of the State Penalties Enforcement Act 1999, section 34.