Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1980 - SECT 46

    (1)     A person shall not, except in accordance with a licence, keep an animal other than an exempt animal.

Maximum penalty:

        (a)     if the animal has special protection status—100 penalty units, imprisonment for 1 year or both; or

        (b)     in any other case—50 penalty units, imprisonment for 6 months or both.

    (2)     Subsection (1) does not apply to or in relation to an animal kept by a person if—

        (a)     the animal is suffering from a disease, illness or injury; and

        (b)     the animal is being kept by the person for the purpose of being given treatment for that disease, illness or injury or being delivered to a conservation officer; and

        (c)     the period for which the animal has been kept by the person does not exceed 48 hours.