Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 240

240 Dealing in contaminated goods

A person who knowingly—

(a) sells or exposes for sale as goods for human consumption, or has in the person’s possession with intent to sell it as goods for human consumption, any article that the person knows to be contaminated or otherwise unfit as goods for human consumption; or

(b) takes into a slaughter house used for the slaughter of any animals intended for human consumption the whole or any part of the carcass of an animal that has died of a disease; or

(c) sells or exposes for sale the whole or part of the carcass of an animal that has died of a disease or that was diseased when slaughtered;

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—3 years imprisonment.