Victorian Consolidated Regulations

Wildlife Regulations 2002 - SECT 20

Persons exempt from operation of sections 45, 46 and 47 of the Act

20. Persons exempt from operation of sections 45, 46 and 47 of the Act



(1) If a person temporarily possesses a specimen of sick, injured or abandoned
wildlife for the purpose of transporting it to-

   (a)  a registered veterinary practitioner; or





   (b)  a person who is the holder of an authorisation under section 28A of
        the Act for the purposes of enabling the care, treatment or
        rehabilitation of sick, injured or orphaned wildlife-

the possession of that wildlife for that purpose is exempt from the operation
of sections 45, 46 and 47 of the Act.

(2) If a person who is a registered veterinary practitioner possesses sick,
injured or abandoned wildlife temporarily for the purpose of administering
veterinary treatment to the wildlife, the possession of that wildlife for that
purpose by that person is exempt from the operation of sections 45, 46 and 47
of the Act.

(3) The Zoological Parks and Gardens Board established under the
Zoological Parks and Gardens Act 1995 is exempt from the operation of sections
45, 46 and 47 of the Act.

(4) If a person possesses wildlife, for the purposes of conveying and
transporting it on behalf of, or at the request of, a holder of a wildlife
licence and if the person has a letter of authorisation or delivery docket he
or she has been given by the licence holder which the person reasonably
believes states-

   (a)  the name and address and wildlife licence number (if any) of the owner
        of the wildlife; and

   (b)  the name and address and wildlife licence number (if any) of the
        person to whom the wildlife is being consigned; and

   (c)  the common name (as shown in the relevant Schedule to these
        Regulations) of each taxon of wildlife that is being consigned; and

   (d)  the number of specimens of each taxon of wildlife being conveyed or
        transported; and

   (e)  the date on which the wildlife is being conveyed or transported-

the possession of that wildlife for those purposes is exempt from the
operation of sections 45, 46 and 47 of the Act.

(5) If a person possesses cast or shed wildlife feathers, sloughed skins of
reptiles or cast antlers of deer, the possession of that product by that
person is exempt from the operation of section 47 of the Act.