{"id":48221,"date":"2013-10-20T15:21:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T05:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=48221"},"modified":"2020-07-29T16:50:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T06:50:23","slug":"cattle-duffers-face-new-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2013\/10\/20\/cattle-duffers-face-new-fines\/","title":{"rendered":"Cattle Duffers Face New Fines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>October 20, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The State Government has strengthened Queensland\u2019s stock laws in a bid to stamp out cattle stealing.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Campbell Newman said cattle stealing was a serious crime that required serious penalties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a dirty act that hurts farmers and the wider community, with annual losses in the millions of dollars,&#8221; Mr Newman said.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie said the minimum fines for a range of stock offences would now be increased from $200 to $1100 per animal or the value of the animal, whichever was the higher amount.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis reflects the seriousness of any cattle offence no matter the level of criminality,&#8221; Mr Blejie said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese fines will hit the hip pocket of those who attempt to profit from hard-working farmers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other amendments to the legislation will:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Empower police by extending stock-related search warrant durations from 7 to 21 days<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Modernise evidentiary requirements in stock offence prosecutions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Maintain the ability of police to immediately return cattle to victims of crime where there is no dispute as to ownership<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Streamline the disposal process where there is a dispute as to ownership, allowing the stock to be sold pending an order from the Court to distribute the funds at the conclusion of proceedings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cUnder the new laws, the Court can order the return of cattle when stock has strayed onto a person\u2019s property and the land owner refuses to move the cattle,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Government has strengthened Queensland\u2019s stock laws in a bid to stamp out cattle stealing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":4888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,24,36],"tags":[1132,1134],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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