NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1992 - SECT 88BA
Restrictions relating to dugongs and marine turtles
NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1992 - SECT 88BA
Restrictions relating to dugongs and marine turtles
(1) A person must not sell or give away, at commercial food premises, a
prescribed animal or prescribed product. Penalty— Maximum
penalty—3,000 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.
(2) In this
section—
"commercial food premises" — (a) means premises on or from which food is
sold or given away as a part of a business operating from the premises; but
Examples of a business for paragraph (a)— restaurant, cafe, recreation club
(b) does not include premises— (i) being used in association with a public
event; and
(ii) on or from which the selling or giving away of food takes
place only occasionally.
Examples of premises for paragraph (b)— a hall at
which a community fair is being held, a temporary stall at a cultural fair
"dugong" means the mammal Dugong dugon.
"marine turtle" means a turtle of the family Cheloniidae or Dermochelyidae.
"prescribed animal" means a protected marine turtle or dugong.
"prescribed product" means anything made or derived from a prescribed animal.
