Queensland Consolidated Acts

ANIMAL CARE AND PROTECTION ACT 2001 - SECT 13

13 Making codes of practice

(1) A regulation may make codes of practice about animal welfare that are based on good practice and scientific knowledge.

Note—

See the Statutory Instruments Act 1992 , section 23 (Statutory instrument may make provision by applying another document) for the power by regulation to make provision for a matter, including, for example, a code of practice, by reference to another document.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1) , a code of practice may be made about any of the following—

(a) the care and handling of animals;

(b) the use of animals—

(i) as companions; or

(ii) for commercial, entertainment, recreational, scientific or other purposes; or

(iii) in any of the following—

• aquaria

• boarding kennels

• pet shops

• theme parks

• zoos;

(c) the performance of medical or surgical procedures on animals;

(d) the use of electric devices on animals;

(e) the transportation of livestock and other animals;

(f) animal slaughtering establishments and the preparation or treatment of animals for human consumption;

(g) the snaring or trapping of animals;

(h) the control of animals that, under section 42 , are feral or pest animals;

(i) aquaculture or livestock production.