Queensland Consolidated Regulations

NATURE CONSERVATION (ANIMALS) REGULATION 2020 - REG 162

162 General restrictions on grant

(1) The chief executive must not grant a damage mitigation permit for an animal unless the permit is for 1 or more of the following purposes—

(a) preventing damage or loss caused, or likely to be caused, by the animal;

(b) preventing or minimising a threat, or potential threat, to human health or wellbeing caused, or likely to be caused, by the animal;

(c) a purpose stated in a conservation plan applying to the animal.

Note—

See the Nature Conservation (Estuarine Crocodile) Conservation Plan 2018 , section 22 about problem crocodiles.

(2) The chief executive must not grant a damage mitigation permit for taking an animal by using a weapon to an individual who is under 17 years.

(3) The chief executive must not grant a damage mitigation permit for a critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable or near threatened animal unless—

(a) a conservation plan applying to the animal authorises a person holding a damage mitigation permit to take the animal; or

(b) the permit requires any animal taken under the permit to be released into a prescribed natural habitat for the animal.