ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1961 - SECT 47D

ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1961 - SECT 47D

47D—Payment of costs incidental to apprehension etc

        (1)         The court by which a person is found guilty of a prescribed offence on the information of a police officer may, in addition to imposing any other penalty, make, on the application of the informant, an order requiring the defendant to pay to the informant (or to a person or body nominated by the informant) a reasonable sum to cover the cost of all or any of the following:

            (a)         apprehending the defendant;

            (b)         conveying the defendant to a police station;

            (c)         keeping the defendant in custody until trial;

            (d)         medically examining the defendant;

            (e)         facilitating the taking of a sample of the defendant's oral fluid and providing for the presence of a police officer;

            (f)         facilitating the taking of a sample of the defendant's blood and providing for the presence of a police officer;

            (g)         any oral fluid analysis of a sample taken of the defendant's oral fluid;

            (h)         any blood test of a sample taken of the defendant's blood.

        (2)         Any sum of money received by the informant in consequence of an order under subsection (1) must be paid into the Consolidated Account.

        (3)         In this section—

"prescribed offence" means an offence against—

            (a)         section 47(1) or (1a); or

            (b)         section 47B(1) or (1a); or

            (c)         section 47BA(1) or (1a); or

            (d)         section 47E(3) or (3a); or

            (e)         section 47EAA(9) or (9a); or

            (f)         section 47I(7) or (14).