Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations (1) A person may
temporarily keep in captivity or confinement fauna that is sick, diseased or
injured or that is abandoned juvenile fauna, for the purpose of caring for it
until it recovers or becomes capable of fending for itself.
(2) A person who takes
into captivity or confinement under subregulation (1) fauna that has been
declared by the Minister, by notice in the Gazette , to be notifiable, must
notify the Minister within the period specified in the notice that the person
is keeping the fauna.
(3) A person who keeps
fauna under subregulation (1) must, as soon as practicable after it
recovers or becomes capable of fending for itself, release it in a place where
such fauna is ordinarily found in the wild.
(4) If a person
keeping fauna under subregulation (1) —
(a) is
directed to do so by a wildlife officer; or
(b) is
unable to release the fauna in accordance with subregulation (3),
the person
must —
(c) give
the fauna to a wildlife officer;
(d) with
the approval of the Minister, give it to a person who is authorised under a
licence to keep it; or
(e) if
it is unlikely to recover or become able to fend for itself, have it humanely
destroyed.
(5) In
subregulation (1) —
abandoned juvenile fauna means fauna —
(a) of a
species the juveniles of which are normally cared for by a parent;
(b) that
is of an age at which it would normally still be being cared for by a parent;
and
(c) that
has been abandoned by its parents.
[Regulation 28A inserted in Gazette
4 Feb 2003 p. 325.]