Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

TERRITORY PARKS AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ACT - SECT 56

(1) Subject to this Part, the Director may grant or refuse to grant a permit having considered and taken into account -

(a) the classification of wildlife under section 29;

(b) the principles of management set out in section 31;

(c) all relevant management programs, co-operative management agreements, declarations of areas of essential habitat and agreements under sections 73 and 74;

(d) the likely effect (and in particular any detrimental impact) of the issue of a permit on the continued survival of wildlife, habitats, vegetation and ecosystems and on the landscape and the environment generally;

(e) in the case of a permit relating to prohibited entrants - matters relating to the retrieval, capture, disposal or destruction of an escaped prohibited entrant;

(f) the welfare of the animal or animals to which the permit relates;

(g) the protection of the safety and welfare of the public; and

(h) any prescribed matters.

(2) The Director must not grant a permit authorising -

(a) an activity that is inconsistent with the objectives of a management program; or

(b) unless the Minister gives his or her written approval to do so - the taking or interference with wildlife that is threatened wildlife.

(3) The Director must not grant a permit to a person if the person or a nominee specified by the person in the application has been found guilty of an offence against this Act or that otherwise relates to wildlife within the 5 year period immediately before the person applies for the permit.

(4) A permit is to be in a form approved by the Director and, if the permit is granted to a person and his or her nominees, is to specify the nominees.