Queensland Consolidated Regulations

NATURE CONSERVATION (ANIMALS) REGULATION 2020 - REG 58

58 Veterinary surgeons treating animals

(1) A veterinary surgeon may carry out any of the following activities in relation to a protected, international or prohibited animal (the
"treated animal" ) to treat or care for the animal—

(a) take the animal;

(b) keep the animal;

(c) use, other than move or process, the animal;

(d) if the animal dies during the treatment or care—move the animal from the place where the surgeon keeps the animal to—

(i) the place where the animal is to be buried or incinerated; or

(ii) if the chief executive has asked the surgeon to move the animal to another place—the other place.

Note—

See also section 59 for authority to move particular animals.

(2) The veterinary surgeon may euthanase a treated animal if the surgeon believes the animal is unable or unlikely to—

(a) recover from sickness or injury; or

(b) for a protected animal—survive in the wild because the animal is orphaned.