Queensland Numbered Acts

RACING INTEGRITY ACT 2016 - SECT 193

193 Power to give animal welfare direction

(1) The authorised officer may give a written direction (an
"animal welfare direction" ) requiring stated action about the animal or its environment.

(2) The direction may be given to—

(a) a person in charge of the animal; or

(b) a person whom the authorised officer reasonably believes is in charge of the animal; or

(c) if the animal has been seized under division 3, subdivision 1—

(i) a person who, immediately before the seizure, was a person in charge of the animal; or

(ii) a person whom the authorised officer reasonably believes was, immediately before the seizure, a person in charge of the animal.

(3) Without limiting subsection (1), the direction may require any of the following actions to be taken—

(a) care for, or treat, the animal in stated way;

(b) provide the animal with stated accommodation, food, rest, water or other living conditions;

(c) consult a veterinary surgeon about the animal’s condition before a stated time;

(d) move the animal from the place where it is situated when the direction is given to another stated place for a purpose mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c);

(e) not to move the animal from the place where it is situated when the direction is given.

(4) However, action may be required only if the authorised officer considers it to be necessary and reasonable in the interests of the animal’s welfare.

(5) The direction may state how the person given the direction may show that the stated action has been taken.