Queensland Consolidated Acts

ANIMAL CARE AND PROTECTION ACT 2001 - SECT 20

20 Meaning of prohibited event

A
"prohibited event" means any of the following events—

(a) a bullfight or organised event held for public entertainment in which a person provokes a bull in a way that is likely to cause it to charge;

(b) a cockfight or dogfight or other event in which an animal fights, or is encouraged to fight, with another animal;

(c) coursing or another event in which an animal is released from captivity to be hunted, injured or killed by another animal;

(d) an event in which an animal is released from captivity to be hunted, or shot at, by a person without an appropriate acclimatisation period between the release and the hunting to reduce stress to the animal;

(e) an event prescribed under a regulation held for public enjoyment or entertainment, with or without charge to anyone present, at which anyone participating in the event causes an animal pain.

Example of causing an animal pain for paragraph (e)—

someone does, or attempts to, catch, fight or throw the animal