Queensland Consolidated Acts

ANIMAL MANAGEMENT (CATS AND DOGS) ACT 2008 - SECT 43ZA

43ZA Exceptions for supply of dog

(1) A person does not commit an offence against section 43Z if the dog is supplied in any of the following circumstances—

(a) the dog is bred, by a primary producer, from a working dog and supplied to another primary producer to use as a working dog;

(b) the dog is supplied by a member of a class of persons prescribed under section 43E (3) (c) ;

(c) the dog is supplied to a pound or shelter.

(2) Also, if the dog is not required under section 43Y (1) to be implanted with a PPID for the supply, a person does not commit an offence against section 43Z only because the person does not know the matter mentioned in section 43Z (b) .

(3) In this section—

"shelter" includes a veterinary surgery to the extent it provides shelter for a dog that is homeless, lost or stray.