Tasmanian Consolidated Regulations Tasmanian Consolidated Regulations
(1) A person must not use a dog to take a deer.
Penalty:
Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.
(2) A person must not, except with the permission of the Secretary, take a deer otherwise than by shooting with a rifle –
(a) with a calibre of not less than 6 millimetres; and
(b) which is capable of delivering a projectile having a kinetic energy of 1350 joules at a distance of 100 metres from the rifle.
Penalty:
Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.
(3) A person who has taken an adult male deer must immediately fix and lock a prescribed tag to the antler of the deer around the beam between the brow and the trez tine.
Penalty:
Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.
(4) A person who has taken an antlerless deer must immediately fix and lock a prescribed tag through the lower jaw of the deer.
Penalty:
Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.
(4A) A person must not affix a prescribed tag to a deer if it is a tag that has been issued to another person.
Penalty:
Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.
(5) A person must not, except with the permission of the Secretary, remove a prescribed tag fixed to a deer in accordance with subregulation (3) or (4).
Penalty:
Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.
(6) A person must not interfere with, damage or deface a prescribed tag.
Penalty:
Fine not exceeding 50 penalty units.
(7) In this regulation,
"prescribed tag" means a tag issued to the holder of a deer licence at the time of the issue of the licence.