NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE ACT 1972 - SECT 60C

NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE ACT 1972 - SECT 60C

60C—Permit for farming protected animals

        (1)         The Minister may grant to a person a permit—

            (a)         to take an animal or the eggs of an animal from the wild or to slaughter or destroy in any other manner an animal in captivity; or

            (b)         to keep an animal or to have possession or control of the eggs of an animal; or

            (c)         to sell an animal or the carcass or eggs of an animal,

in the course of carrying on the business of farming animals of that species.

        (2)         A person is not entitled to carry on the commercial farming of protected animals pursuant to a permit granted under any other provision of this Act after the expiration of 12 months following the inclusion in Schedule 11 of the species to which the animals belong.

        (3)         The Minister must not grant a permit under subsection (1) for the commercial farming of protected animals—

            (a)         if a code of management has not been adopted by the Minister under this Division in respect of the species of animal to which the permit will relate; or

            (b)         if the permit would, in the Minister's opinion, be seriously at variance with the code of management referred to in paragraph (a).

        (4)         A permit for the trial farming of protected animals of a particular species expires at the expiration of the term for which it was granted or when the declaration under section 60BA in relation to that species expires whichever occurs first.

        (5)         The Minister must not grant a permit under subsection (1) to take an animal or the eggs of an animal from the wild unless he or she is satisfied that the removal of animals or eggs pursuant to the permit is desirable in order to reduce or control a population of animals that is causing, or is likely to cause, damage to the environment or to crops, stock or other property.

        (6)         A permit granted under subsection (1) is subject to such limitations, restrictions or conditions as are imposed by this section or by the Minister under section 69 or by a notice under section 60BA or are prescribed from time to time by regulation.

        (7)         An animal taken from the wild or an animal raised from an egg taken from the wild cannot be slaughtered or destroyed in any other manner pursuant to a permit granted under subsection (1) except—

            (a)         as a last resort to terminate the animal's suffering; or

            (b)         to prevent the spread of a disease with which the animal is infected.

        (8)         A permit that enables the holder to take an animal or the eggs of an animal from the wild is subject to a condition requiring the holder within 14 days after taking animals or eggs pursuant to the permit to deliver to the Minister a report in the prescribed form stating the number of animals and eggs taken.

        (9)         A permit granted under subsection (1) authorises—

            (a)         the sale of eggs of the species to which the permit relates to a person who carries on the business of farming animals of that species; and

            (b)         the sale of eggs of that species to any other person subject to the written approval of the Minister.

        (10)         It is lawful to—

            (a)         take a protected animal or the eggs of a protected animal from the wild or to slaughter or destroy in any other manner an animal in captivity; or

            (b)         keep a protected animal or to have possession or control of the eggs of a protected animal; or

            (c)         sell a protected animal or the carcass or eggs of a protected animal,

pursuant to a permit granted under subsection (1).