Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Wildlife Act 1975 - SECT 47D

Wildlife unlawfully taken

47D. Wildlife unlawfully taken



(1) A person must not have wildlife in his or her possession or control if
that wildlife has been taken, destroyed, acquired, received, bought, sold,
disposed of, kept, possessed, controlled, bred, processed or displayed in
contravention of this Act or any corresponding law of another State or a
Territory of the Commonwealth.

Penalty: 240 penalty units or 24 months imprisonment or both.

(2) It is a defence to a charge brought under subsection (1) against a person
to prove that the person took reasonable steps to ascertain and reasonably
believed that the wildlife was not unlawfully taken, destroyed, acquired,
received, bought, sold, disposed of, kept, possessed, controlled, bred,
processed or displayed.