"commencing day" means the day on which this division commences.
"declaration day" for an animal means the day on which the animal becomes a
newly protected animal.
"newly protected animal" means a protected animal that, immediately before the
commencing day, was not fauna under the Fauna Conservation Act 1974 .
(2) If
a person is keeping a newly protected animal at the beginning of the
declaration day, the animal and its progeny do not become the property of the
State merely because of the animal becoming a protected animal.
