Queensland Consolidated Regulations

NATURE CONSERVATION (ANIMALS) REGULATION 2020 - REG 202

202 Obtaining and keeping animals

(1) The holder of a rehabilitation permit, or a relevant person for the holder, may carry out any of the following activities—

(a) obtain an authorised animal from the wild if—

(i) the animal is sick, injured or orphaned; or

(ii) the animal’s habitat has been destroyed by human activity or a natural disaster; or

(iii) if stated in the rehabilitation permit—the animal’s habitat will be destroyed by human activity;

(b) keep an animal obtained under paragraph (a) at the place of residence of the holder or relevant person.

(2) This section does not authorise a relevant person for the holder of a rehabilitation permit to obtain or keep an animal under the permit if the holder instructs the relevant person not to obtain or keep the animal.

Example of way in which instruction may be given—

the holder gives the relevant person a copy of the permit with the animal crossed out

(3) In this section—

"obtain" , an animal, means—

(a) take the animal, other than hunt, shoot, wound, kill, skin, poison, spear, injure or harm the animal; or

(b) accept the taken animal from another person.