ANIMAL WELFARE ACT 1992 - SECT 18 Rodeos and game parks
ANIMAL WELFARE ACT 1992 - SECT 18
Rodeos and game parks(1) A person commits an offence if the person conducts or takes part in a rodeo.
Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units, imprisonment for 1 year or both.
(2) A person commits an offence if the person promotes or conducts a game park.
Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units, imprisonment for 1 year or both.
(3) In this section:
"game park" means premises where—
(a) animals other than fish are confined; and
(b) the taking and killing of those animals as a sport or recreation is permitted on payment of a fee or other consideration.
"rodeo" means a public exhibition, including a competition, of activities derived from work on a cattle station including riding horses or steers bareback and roping calves.
"take", in relation to an animal, includes hunt, shoot, poison, net, snare, spear, pursue, capture and injure the animal.