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NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE ACT 1972 - SECT 65

NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE ACT 1972 - SECT 65

65—Use of poison

        (1)         A person who, without a permit granted by the Minister, uses poison for the purpose of taking a protected animal is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: $2 000.

        (2)         If a protected animal is taken as a result of the use of poison by a person without a permit granted by the Minister, that person is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: $2 000.

        (3)         It is a defence to a charge under subsection (2) that the defendant—

            (a)         used the poison in good faith for the purpose of destroying vermin under the Landscape South Australia Act 2019 ; and

            (b)         exercised such precautions as the defendant might reasonably be expected to have exercised in the circumstances to avoid endangering protected animals by the use of poison.

        (4)         In this section—

"poison" means any substance that might endanger the life or health of a protected animal.