Queensland Consolidated Acts

NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1992 - SECT 88BA

88BA Restrictions relating to dugongs and marine turtles

(1) A person must not sell or give away, at commercial food premises, a prescribed animal or prescribed product.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—3,000 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.

(2) In this section—

"commercial food premises" —

(a) means premises on or from which food is sold or given away as a part of a business operating from the premises; but

Examples of a business for paragraph (a)—

restaurant, cafe, recreation club

(b) does not include premises—

(i) being used in association with a public event; and

(ii) on or from which the selling or giving away of food takes place only occasionally.

Examples of premises for paragraph (b)—

a hall at which a community fair is being held, a temporary stall at a cultural fair

"dugong" means the mammal Dugong dugon.

"marine turtle" means a turtle of the family Cheloniidae or Dermochelyidae.

"prescribed animal" means a protected marine turtle or dugong.

"prescribed product" means anything made or derived from a prescribed animal.