Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person who sells meat otherwise than at a price determined by reference to the mass of the meat is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty--$5000.
(2) If the article sold as referred to in section 22 is meat consisting of more than 1 cut, a written statement of measurement is not sufficient to comply with section 22(1)(b) unless it specifies the mass of each cut.
(3) A person who offers or exposes a quantity of meat for sale at a marked price for that quantity is guilty of an offence unless--
(a) the mass of the meat is also marked in the same manner as, and as prominently as, the price marking; and
(b) the price per kilogram of the meat is also indicated as prominently as the price marking by a marking on the meat or by another statement in letters and figures not less than 10mm high that clearly refers to the meat.
Maximum penalty--$5000.
(4) In this section--
meat means so much of a slaughtered animal as is ordinarily sold for human consumption (whether or not after being subjected to a process of any kind) but does not include--
(a) the whole or any part of rabbit or shellfish; or
(b) heads, feet, hearts, lights, kidneys, brains or sweetbread; or
(c) meat packed as a prepacked article.
(5) This section does not apply to the sale (other than for the purpose of resale) of cooked meat sold on the premises on which it is cooked.