CHAPTER 2
-
THE CONFISCATION SCHEME
PART 2-1
-
RESTRAINING ORDERS
Division 6
-
Duration of restraining orders
SECTION 42
Application to revoke a restraining order
42(1)
A person who was not notified of the application for a
*
restraining order may apply to the court to revoke the order.
42(1A)
The application must be made:
(a)
within 28 days after the person is notified of the order; or
(b)
if the person applies to the court, within that period of 28 days, for an extension of the time for applying for revocation
-
within such longer period, not exceeding 3 months, as the court allows.
42(2)
The applicant must give written notice to the *responsible authority and the
*
Official Trustee of both the application and the grounds on which the revocation is sought.
History
S 42(2) amended by No 174 of 2011, s 3 and Sch 2 item 43, by substituting
"
*responsible authority
"
for
"
*DPP
"
, effective 1 January 2012. For application provisions see note under s
315B
.
42(3)
However, the
*
restraining order remains in force until the court revokes the order.
42(4)
The *responsible authority may adduce additional material to the court relating to the application to revoke the
*
restraining order.
History
S 42(4) amended by No 174 of 2011, s 3 and Sch 2 item 43, by substituting
"
*responsible authority
"
for
"
*DPP
"
, effective 1 January 2012. For application provisions see note under s
315B
.
42(5)
The court may revoke the
*
restraining order if satisfied that:
(a)
there are no grounds on which to make the order at the time of considering the application to revoke the order; or
(b)
it is otherwise in the interests of justice to do so.
History
S 42(5) amended by No 3 of 2010 s 3 Sch 2 item 106 by inserting
"
; or
"
and para (b) at the end effective 20 February 2010. No 3 of 2010, s 3 Sch 2 item 107 contains the following application and transitional provision:
107 Application and transitional
(1)
The amendment of section
42
of the
Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
made by this Part applies in relation to the revocation of a restraining order on or after commencement, whether the application for that revocation was made before, on or after commencement.
(2)
If an application under section
42
of the
Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
for the revocation of a restraining order has been made but not determined as at commencement:
(a)
the applicant may vary the application to take account of paragraph
42(5)(b)
of the
Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
as in force at commencement; and
(b)
if the application is varied under paragraph (a) of this subitem
-
the applicant must give a copy of the application as varied, and written notice of any additional grounds that he or she proposes to rely on in seeking that revocation, to the DPP and the Official Trustee; and
(c)
the DPP may adduce additional material to the court relating to those additional grounds.
(3)
In this item:
commencement
means the commencement of this item.