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WILDLIFE CONSERVATION REGULATIONS 1970 - REG 6

6 .         Licence to take kangaroos for sale

        (1)         For the purposes of section 15 of the Act, the Minister may issue licences to be known as professional shooters’ licences.

        [(2)         deleted]

        (3)         Subject to any condition endorsed on the licence and to the succeeding provisions of this regulation, a professional shooter’s licence authorises the holder to take for sale such species of kangaroo from such area or place as are respectively specified, in the licence and to process in the field the kangaroos taken to the extent of evisceration and removal of head, tail, limbs and, where specified in the licence, skin.

        (4)         The holder of a professional shooter’s licence shall carry the licence on or about his person whenever he is taking or about to take any fauna to which it relates.

        (5)         The fee for the issue of a professional shooter’s licence is $60.

        [(6)-(8)         deleted]

        (9)         Unless otherwise endorsed as a condition on the licence, the holder of a professional shooter’s licence shall not take any fauna by any means other than a firearm licensed pursuant to the Firearms Act 1973 .

        (10)         A person who is not a holder of a professional shooter’s licence shall not assist the holder of such a licence in the taking of fauna for gain or reward.

        (11)         The holder of a professional shooter’s licence shall not sell, transport or consign any fauna or any part thereof unless he has first duly affixed a tag to each specimen of the fauna or part thereof.

        [Regulation 6 amended in Gazette 24 Dec 1976 p. 5054; 16 Mar 1979 p. 694; 16 Oct 1981 p. 4323; 1 Jun 1990 p. 2486; 31 May 1991 p. 2649 and 2654.]



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