Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Any person who,
without lawful excuse (proof whereof shall lie on him), —
(a)
liberates or attempts to liberate in any part of the State an animal that is a
declared animal of any category other than category A7 in respect of that part
of the State; or
(b)
abandons, or permits or fails to take reasonable precautions to prevent, the
being at large in any part of the State of an animal that becomes a declared
animal in that part of the State by reason of being at large,
commits an offence.
Penalty: a fine of $20 000.
(2) For the purposes
of this section, a person in charge of any vehicle, vessel, train or aircraft
is deemed to have liberated any animal that escapes or is free to escape, from
that vehicle, vessel, train or aircraft, unless he shows that he might not
reasonably have prevented its escape or freedom to escape.
[Section 83 amended by No. 59 of 1986
s. 7; No. 20 of 1989 s. 3; No. 46 of 2010 s. 41.]