GAME AND FERAL ANIMAL CONTROL ACT 2002 - SECT 6A Exemptions from certain offences under National Parks and Wildlife legislation

GAME AND FERAL ANIMAL CONTROL ACT 2002 - SECT 6A

6A Exemptions from certain offences under National Parks and Wildlife legislation

(1) The holder of a game hunting licence who hunts a game animal on declared public hunting land in accordance with the authority conferred by the licence does not, in connection with that hunting, commit--

(a) any offence under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 or the regulations under that Act that involves an activity associated with hunting and that is necessary for the purposes of hunting the game animal, or

(b) any offence under that Act that involves possessing or exporting, otherwise than for the purposes of sale, the carcass, or the skin or any other part, of a game animal killed by the licence holder.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) (a), an
"activity associated with hunting" includes carrying a firearm or other hunting device.

(2A) A person who holds a game hunting licence and who is authorised or permitted to kill a native game bird under the authority conferred by a native game bird management licence does not, in connection with that killing, commit--

(a) any offence under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 or the regulations under that Act that involves harming the native game bird, or

(b) any offence under that Act that involves possessing or exporting (otherwise than for the purposes of sale) the carcass, or the skin or any other part, of the native game bird.

(3) This section does not authorise a person to take a dog into any national park estate land or to use a dog to assist in hunting on any such land.