Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) This section
applies to fauna whether protected or not protected.
(2) Unless by the
authority of a licence which is in operation, no person
shall —
(a)
commence or carry on the business of conducting a farm for the purpose of
breeding or raising any kind of fauna or, for the purpose of stocking the
farm, take any kind of fauna; or
(b)
commence or keep an establishment for the breeding or holding of fauna for
gain or reward; or
(c)
bring any fauna into the State; or
(d)
export fauna from the State; or
(e)
sell, or take for the purpose of sale, any fauna other than fauna that has
been taken for the purposes of sale under the authority of a licence granted
by or under the Fish Resources Management Act 1994 or a licence or permit
granted by or under any other Act; or
(f)
bring into the State from any place outside the State, or keep in the State,
any animal, or class of animal, whose habits or nature might in the opinion of
the Minister become or threaten to become injurious to fauna or flora; or
(g)
process fauna, other than fauna that is processed pursuant to a licence
granted by or under the Fish Resources Management Act 1994 for the
purposes of sale; or
(h)
release from confinement any animal in any part of the State where it is not
ordinarily found in a condition of natural liberty in that part or to keep any
such animal in confinement for the purpose of so releasing it.
(3) A person
who —
(a) uses
any means or device prescribed by the regulations as an illegal means or
device in the taking of fauna; or
(b)
permits or suffers any such illegal means or device to be used in the taking
of fauna on land of which he is the occupier; or
(c)
permits or suffers any such illegal means or device to be on land of which he
is the occupier,
commits an offence
against this Act.
[Section 17 amended by No. 38 of 1954
s. 8; No. 45 of 1967 s. 17; No. 99 of 1969 s. 9;
No. 34 of 1977 s. 6; No. 53 of 1994 s. 264; No. 57 of
1997 s. 132(5) and (23).]