WILDLIFE ACT 1975 - SECT 58C Offence for certain persons to enter on or remain in specified hunting area
WILDLIFE ACT 1975 - SECT 58C
Offence for certain persons to enter on or remain in specified hunting areaS. 58C(1) substituted by No. 11/2014 s. 20.
(1) A person must not enter on or remain in any specified hunting area at any of the following times—
(a) from the beginning of the first day of an open season for ducks until 10 a.m. of that day;
(b) from 2 hours before sunset of each day of an open season for ducks (other than the last day) until 10 a.m. of the following day;
(c) from 2 hours before sunset of the last day of an open season for duck until 30 minutes after sunset of that day;
(d) at any other time in any open season for ducks that is specified in regulations made under subsection (2).
Penalty: 60 penalty units.
S. 58C(1A) inserted by No. 11/2014 s. 20.
(1A) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who—
(a) is the holder of—
S. 58C
(1A)(a)(i) amended by No. 22/2022 s. 194.
(i) a game licence that allows the hunting, taking or destroying of game that is waterfowl; and
(ii) a longarm licence under the Firearms Act 1996 ; or
S. 58C(1A)(b) repealed by No. 67/2016 s. 36(2).
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S. 58C(1A)(c) amended by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 184.3).
(c) is an authorised officer or a police officer acting in the course of his or her duty; or
S. 58C(1A)(d) amended by No. 24/2014 s. 46.
(d) is acting in accordance with the authorisation of the Game Management Authority.
(2) The Governor in Council may make regulations—
(a) declaring any area to be a specified hunting area; and
(b) specifying the times during which entry onto the area or remaining in the area is prohibited for the purposes of subsection (1).
S. 58D inserted by No. 87/1997
s. 20, amended by No. 11/2014 s. 21.