Queensland Consolidated Acts

ANIMAL CARE AND PROTECTION ACT 2001 - SECT 221

221 Proceedings for particular offences—liability of executive officer

(1) This section applies in relation to—

(a) an offence against former section 209 committed by a person before the commencement; or

(b) an offence against a deemed executive liability provision committed by a person before the commencement.

(2) Without limiting the Acts Interpretation Act 1954 , section 20 , a proceeding for the offence may be continued or started, and the person may be convicted of and punished for the offence, as if the amendment Act, sections 7 and 192 had not commenced.

(3) Subsection (2) applies despite the Criminal Code, section 11.

(4) In this section—

"deemed executive liability provision" has the meaning given by former section 209A(4).