Queensland Consolidated Acts

ANIMAL CARE AND PROTECTION ACT 2001 - SECT 82

82 Animal welfare offence reports

(1) The commissioner of the police service must, if asked by the chief executive, give the chief executive a written report (an
"animal welfare offence report" ) about—

(a) any convictions for animal welfare offences recorded against—

(i) the applicant; or

(ii) the registered person; or

(iii) any member or proposed member of an animal ethics committee for the applicant or registered person; and

(b) if the applicant or registered person is a corporation, whether a disqualifying event has happened in relation to—

(i) any of its executive officers; and

(ii) another corporation of which any of its executive officers is, or has been, an executive officer.

(2) The report must be prepared from—

(a) information in the commissioner’s possession; and

(b) information the commissioner can reasonably obtain by asking officials administering police services in other Australian jurisdictions.

(3) However, subsection (2) is subject to the Criminal Law (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act 1986 .