Queensland Consolidated Acts

NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1992 - SECT 154O

154O Offence to interfere

(1) This section applies in relation to a thing seized under division 1 or 2 .

(2) A person must not do, or attempt to do, any of the following, unless the person has a reasonable excuse—

(a) tamper with the thing;

(b) tamper with an action taken under section 152A (1) (b) to restrict access to the thing;

(c) enter, or be at, the place where the thing is being kept;

(d) move the thing from the place where it is being kept;

(e) have the thing in the person’s possession.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—

(a) for a thing seized under division 1 —500 penalty units; or

(b) otherwise—100 penalty units.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if—

(a) the person is the chief executive or a conservation officer; or

(b) the person is doing something mentioned in subsection (2) that the person is asked, or authorised, by a conservation officer to do; or

(c) in relation to wildlife—the person from whom the wildlife is seized—

(i) is complying with a direction for the wildlife given under section 152A (3) (e) ; and

(ii) does not, without the written authority of a conservation officer, take the wildlife from its place of seizure.