Queensland Consolidated Regulations

NATURE CONSERVATION (ANIMALS) REGULATION 2020 - REG 33

33 Keeping and using dead marine mammals

(1) This section applies if the chief executive gives an animal that is a dead marine mammal to—

(a) a Traditional Owner for the land or waters from which the animal was taken or on or in which the animal was found; or

(b) a person nominated to the chief executive by a person mentioned in paragraph (a) .

(2) A person given an animal under subsection (1) , may carry out any of the following activities for the personal, domestic or non-commercial communal needs of a community or group of Aboriginal peoples or Torres Strait Islander peoples—

(a) keep the animal;

(b) use, other than move or process, the animal.

(3) In this section—

"representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body" see the Native Title Act 1993 (Cwlth) .

"Traditional Owner" , for land or waters, means a person of Aboriginal descent or Torres Strait Islander descent who is recognised in the Aboriginal community or Torres Strait Islander community generally, or by a representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body for an area that includes the land or waters—

(a) as having spiritual or cultural affiliations with the land or waters; or

(b) as holding native title in relation to the land or waters.