Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 450EA

450EA Admissibility of adequate prescribed record

(1) An adequate prescribed record of an animal is admissible in a proceeding on the charge in relation to which the prescribed record was made by, or made available to, a police officer or on a related charge, as evidence of the matters it depicts, including any of the following—

(a) the existence of the animal when the prescribed record was made;

(b) the condition of the animal at that time;

(c) a brand or other mark or feature of identification on the animal at that time.

(2) Subsection (3) applies if an adequate prescribed record of an animal connected with a charge and seized by a police officer is tendered as evidence of matters depicted by the record in a proceeding on the charge or a related charge.

(3) No objection can be taken or allowed to the admission as evidence of matters depicted by the adequate prescribed record.

(4) Subsections (1) and (3) apply in relation to a proceeding whether it is started before or after the commencement of this section.

(5) In this section—

"related charge" , for a charge, means a charge based on the same act or omission as the act or omission that charge is based on.