Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

WILDLIFE CONSERVATION REGULATIONS 1970 - REG 12

12 .         Licence to breed and keep avian fauna

        (1)         The Minister may issue avicultural licences and advanced avicultural licences authorising persons to breed and keep avian fauna specified in Appendix C in captivity for hobby purposes.

        (2)         Subject to regulations 13, 14 and 16, a person shall not breed or keep avian fauna in captivity or confinement unless he is the holder of an avicultural licence or an advanced avicultural licence, whichever is appropriate.

        (3)         An avicultural licence is a licence entitling its holder to breed and keep the avian fauna or species or classes of avian fauna specified in Part A of Appendix C.

        (3a)         An advanced avicultural licence is a licence entitling its holder to breed and keep the avian fauna or species or classes of avian fauna specified in Part A of Appendix C and such individual birds of the species or classes of avian fauna specified in Parts B, C and D of that Appendix as are listed in the advanced avicultural licence.

        (4)         An application for a licence issued under this regulation or for the renewal thereof — 

            (a)         shall be in writing addressed to the Executive Director;

            (b)         shall set out the name of the avian fauna or species or class of avian fauna in respect of which the licence is required;

            (c)         shall state the avian fauna (by species and number) held by the applicant at the time of the making of the application; and

            (d)         the location of the premises at which the applicant proposes to hold the avian fauna pursuant to the licence.

        [(5)         deleted]

        (6)         The fees payable with respect to the issue of a licence under this regulation or the renewal thereof are as follows — 

            (a)         avicultural licence — $10;

            (b)         advanced avicultural licence — $20.

        (7)         The holder of a licence issued under this regulation shall not — 

            (a)         have in his possession or control any avian fauna other than avian fauna of the species or class applicable to his licence;

            (b)         have in his possession or control any avian fauna in excess of the number applicable to his licence, other than avian fauna — 

                  (i)         bred from avian fauna lawfully kept; or

                  (ii)         lawfully acquired,

                by that holder;

            (c)         breed any avian fauna other than the avian fauna he is permitted to breed under the licence;

            (d)         breed or keep avian fauna at any premises other than the premises specified in his licence;

            (e)         without the issue to him before, or within one working day after, the sale or other disposal concerned of a serially numbered authority in writing, endorsed by a wildlife officer or an officer authorised in writing by the Executive Director to make such an endorsement, sell or otherwise dispose of any avian fauna of a species or class specified in Part B, C or D of Appendix C;

            (f)         sell or dispose of any avian fauna to a person who is not the holder of a licence that permits him to keep those avian fauna unless that person is exempted in respect of those avian fauna by subregulation (8)(b).

        (8)         Nothing in this regulation applies to — 

            (a)         the breeding or keeping of Emus Dromaius novaehollandiae ; or

            (b)         a person who keeps any number of avian fauna that are of the species or classes specified in Part A of Appendix C so long as the number so kept does not — 

                  (i)         in the case of the avian fauna listed in item 1 of that Part, exceed 9; and

                  (ii)         in the case of the avian fauna listed in item 2 of that Part, exceed 3.

        (9)         The Minister, when issuing an advanced avicultural licence, may impose a condition that the holder of the licence shall keep a record, in a form determined by the Executive Director, of all variations in the stock of any nominated species of avian fauna.

        (10)         Where the holder of an advanced avicultural licence is required to keep a record under subregulation (9), the Minister shall not renew that person’s licence until a copy of the record in respect of the preceding licence period has been furnished to the Executive Director.

        (11)         In subregulation (7)(e) — 

        working day means day which is not an excluded day within the meaning of section 61(2) of the Interpretation Act 1984 .

        [Regulation 12 inserted in Gazette 24 Dec 1976 p. 5048‑9; amended in Gazette 21 Jul 1978 p. 2642; 11 Aug 1978 p. 2883; 16 Oct 1981 p. 4324; 1 Jun 1990 p. 2478, 2479 and 2486; 31 May 1991 p. 2651 and 2654.]