Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
(1) In this section –
"commencement day" means the day on which this section commences;
"domesticated wildlife" means an animal that –(a) before the commencement day, was wildlife that had been taken by a person under a wildlife taking permit; and
(b) immediately before the commencement day, was being farmed under a wildlife possession permit or a game farm licence; and
(c) on the commencement day, becomes a prescribed animal;
"game farm licence" has the same meaning as in the Wildlife Regulations 1971 as in force immediately before the commencement day;
"wildlife" has the same meaning as in the Nature Conservation Act 2002;
"wildlife possession permit" means a permit granted under section 29(2)(b) of the Nature Conservation Act 2002;
"wildlife taking permit" means a permit granted under section 29(2)(a) of the Nature Conservation Act 2002.
(2) On the taking in accordance with a wildlife taking permit of a prescribed animal which is wildlife for the purposes of farming that animal as authorized by registration granted under this Act –
(a) the prescribed animal becomes the property of the registered animal farmer; and
(b) the property rights of the registered animal farmer in the prescribed animal are the same as the property rights of an owner of a domestic animal.
(3) Domesticated wildlife is taken to have become the property of the person who took it under a wildlife taking permit on the day on which it was so taken and the property rights of that person in that domesticated wildlife are the same as the property rights of an owner of a domestic animal.