NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1980 (REPEALED) - SECT 46 Keeping animals
This legislation has been repealed.
NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1980 (REPEALED) - SECT 46
Keeping animals(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.