Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Wildlife Act 1975 - SECT 47C

Employees of licence holders

47C. Employees of licence holders



(1) Sections 41, 42, 43, 45, 46 and 47 do not apply to the taking, destroying,
buying, selling, acquiring, receiving, disposing of, keeping, possessing,
controlling, breeding, processing or displaying of or taking samples from or
experimenting on any taxon of wildlife by an employee of the holder of a
licence if that taking, destroying, buying, selling, acquiring, receiving,
disposal, keeping, possessing, controlling, breeding, processing, displaying,
taking samples from or experimenting on is in accordance with the licence and
this Act.

(2) If an employee of the holder of a licence engages in conduct on behalf of
the licence holder within the scope of the employee's actual or apparent
authority, the licence holder is deemed, for the purposes of a prosecution for
an offence against this Act or the regulations, also to have engaged in the
conduct, unless the licence holder establishes that the licence holder took
reasonable precautions and exercised due diligence to avoid the conduct.