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Nature Conservation Act 1992
sec.88BARestrictions relating to dugongs and marine turtles
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### sec.88BA Restrictions relating to dugongs and marine turtles
A person must not sell or give away, at commercial food premises, a prescribed animal or prescribed product.
Maximum penalty—3,000 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.
In this section—
commercial food premises —
means premises on or from which food is sold or given away as a part of a business operating from the premises; but
restaurant, cafe, recreation club
does not include premises—
being used in association with a public event; and
on or from which the selling or giving away of food takes place only occasionally.
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.
s 88BA ins 2013 No. 55 s 61
amd 2022 No. 21 s 64 s ch 1 pt 1
(sec.88BA-ssec.1) A person must not sell or give away, at commercial food premises, a prescribed animal or prescribed product. Maximum penalty—3,000 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.
(sec.88BA-ssec.2) In this section— commercial food premises — means premises on or from which food is sold or given away as a part of a business operating from the premises; but restaurant, cafe, recreation club does not include premises— being used in association with a public event; and on or from which the selling or giving away of food takes place only occasionally. 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.
- (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
- (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.
- (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.