Queensland Consolidated Acts

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMUNITIES (JUSTICE, LAND AND OTHER MATTERS) ACT 1984 - SECT 61

61 Right of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders to particular natural resources

(1) Subject to the Animal Care and Protection Act 2001 and to sections 62 and 93 of the Nature Conservation Act 1992 , but despite the provisions of any other Act, a member of a community of Aborigines or Torres Strait Islanders resident in a community government or IRC area shall not be liable to prosecution as for an offence for taking marine products or fauna by traditional means for consumption by members of the community.

(2) Subsection (1) shall not be construed to authorise the sale or other disposal for gain of any marine product or fauna taken by traditional means.