Queensland Consolidated Regulations

NATURE CONSERVATION (ANIMALS) REGULATION 2020 - REG 239

239 Suitability based on other matters

(1) A person is not a suitable person to hold an animal authority if the chief executive is satisfied the person would be unable to carry out activities under the authority in a competent and ethical way.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1) , the chief executive may be satisfied the person is unable to carry out activities under the animal authority in a competent and ethical way if—

(a) the person, or an associate of the person, has accumulated 10 or more demerit points under section 240 within 3 years before the relevant day; or

(b) the person, or an associate of the person, was the holder of an animal authority that was cancelled within 2 years before the relevant day because the person or associate accumulated 10 or more demerit points under section 240 ; or

(c) the person, or an associate of the person, is or was the holder of an authority, however described, under the law of another jurisdiction that—

(i) is or was equivalent to an animal authority; and

(ii) was suspended or cancelled within 3 years before the relevant day.