Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 450EI

450EI Unavailability of animal at trial

(1) An animal connected with a charge and seized by a police officer is not required to be made available at the defendant’s trial if an adequate prescribed record of the animal is available to the prosecutor for the trial.

(2) A defendant’s trial is not unfair merely because an animal is unavailable at trial because it has been—

(a) sold under a stock disposal order; or

(b) returned to its owner under section 450E (1) (b) after its seizure.