(1) Yes.

(2) A vehicle can be confiscated in accordance of Sections 10A, 10B and 10C of the Road Transport (Safety and Traffic Management) Act 1999.

(3) Other penalties that can be enforced by police include negligent and dangerous driving (sections 6 and 7 of the Act). Traffic infringement notices covering burnouts are also available, which amount to a fine of $385 and aggravated burnouts which has a fine of $495. Both offences carry a penalty of a 3 point deduction off a licence.

(4) (a) 5 (b) 59 (c) 65 (d) 114

(5) The table below summarises the burnout charges for the years 1999-2003.

(6) All confiscated and exhibited vehicles are recorded under the same category on the Police Real-time Online Management Information System while information is also held on other registers. Given the current methods of recording data, it is not practical within the current time limit to identify or extract specific information on confiscated vehicles from the different data sets for the years 1999-2003 as it would be a prohibitively labour intensive and time consuming process. However, records from the beginning of this year show that six cars have been seized. This number includes two seized cars from the end of last year which were still at the ACT Property Office in January 2003.

(7) Given the various methods of reporting and recording burnout activities by police on the Police Real-time Online Management Information System, ACT Policing does not collect specific data in relation to this question. The courts also issue penalties, however, data on such penalties is not retained by ACT Policing.

(8) ACT Policing collects and records data on burnout activity under a number of systems including computer-aided despatch incident reports and the Police Real-time Online