Western Australian Consolidated Acts

AGRICULTURE AND RELATED RESOURCES PROTECTION ACT 1976 - SECT 70

70 .         Natural enemies of declared plants and animals

        (1)         The Governor, by notice published in the Gazette , may declare anything to be a natural enemy of a declared plant or declared animal and prohibit the destruction, injuring and capturing of that thing in any area specified in the notice.

        (2)         A notice published under subsection (1) may be varied or revoked by a subsequent notice so published.

        (3)         Any person who without lawful excuse — 

            (a)         destroys, injures or captures any thing contrary to a notice under subsection (1); or

            (b)         is in possession of any thing that has been captured contrary to a notice under subsection (1),

                commits an offence.

        Penalty: $500.

        [Section 70 amended by No. 20 of 1989 s. 3.]