Queensland Consolidated Regulations

NATURE CONSERVATION (ANIMALS) REGULATION 2020 - REG 208

208 Way animal must be kept

(1) The holder of a rehabilitation permit, or a relevant person for the holder, must keep an authorised animal under the permit in a way that is likely to rehabilitate the animal so that it can be returned to the wild.

(2) A person complies with subsection (1) if the person keeps the animal in a way that complies with the rehabilitation code to the extent the code provides for how an animal should be rehabilitated.

(3) Subsection (2) does not limit the ways in which a person may otherwise comply with subsection (1) .

(4) In this section—

"rehabilitation code" means—

(a) for a koala—the koala rehabilitation code; or

(b) for another animal—the document called ‘Code of practice—care of sick, injured or orphaned protected animals in Queensland’, approved by the chief executive under section 174A of the Act .