Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A prosecution for an offence against this Act or against a local law made by the council for the purposes of this Act shall be by way of summary proceedings under the Justices Act 1886 upon complaint of the council, a person authorised in that behalf by the council or, where the defendant has been arrested and charged with the offence, by a police officer.
(2) A complaint referred to in subsection (1) shall be laid within 12 months after the commission of the offence or within 6 months after the offence comes to the complainant's knowledge whichever period is the later to expire.
(3) It shall not be necessary to prove the authority of the complainant in any proceeding in respect of an offence referred to in subsection (1).
(4) Any penalty and other moneys received as a result of proceedings taken by the council in respect of an offence against this Act or against a local law made in respect of a matter referred to in section 18 shall be paid to the council and, where a separate fund has been established by the council in respect of any separate rate or separate rates made and levied or in respect of any separate charge or separate charges imposed and collected under the City of Brisbane Act 1924, for all or any of the functions of local government referred to in section 7 or 14, shall be paid by it into that separate fund.