WILDLIFE ACT 1975 - SECT 45 Acquiring etc. threatened wildlife

WILDLIFE ACT 1975 - SECT 45

S. 45(1) amended by No. 45/2008 s. 10(2).

    (1)     A person must not buy, sell, acquire, receive, dispose of, keep, possess, control, breed, process, display, take samples from or experiment on threatened wildlife.

Penalty:     240 penalty units or 24 months imprisonment or both the fine and imprisonment and an additional penalty of 20 penalty units for every head of wildlife in respect of which an offence has been committed.

S. 45(2) substituted by No. 45/2008 s. 10(3).

    (2)     Subsection (1) does not apply to a person—

        (a)     who holds a licence or authorisation that authorises the buying, selling, acquiring, receiving, disposing of, keeping, possessing, controlling, breeding, processing, displaying, taking samples from or experimenting on threatened wildlife, when that person is acting in accordance with the licence or authorisation; or

        (b)     who is a member of a class of person in respect of whom an authorisation order has been made that authorises the buying, selling, acquiring, receiving, disposing of, keeping, possessing, controlling, breeding, processing, displaying, taking samples from or experimenting on threatened wildlife, when that person is acting in accordance with the order.

S. 46 amended by Nos 41/1987 s. 103(Sch. 4 item 76.48), 70/1990 s. 12(1)(l), substituted by No. 87/1997

s. 14,

repealed by No. 45/2008 s. 11.

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S. 47 amended by No. 70/1990

s. 12(1)(m), substituted by No. 87/1997

s. 14.