Western Australian Consolidated Acts

AGRICULTURE AND RELATED RESOURCES PROTECTION ACT 1976 - SECT 79

79 .         Delivery of declared animals into custody

        (1)         Where a person — 

            (a)         brings into the State from elsewhere an animal that is a declared animal in respect of the whole or the State; or

            (b)         brings into a part of the State from another part of the State, or from elsewhere, an animal that is a declared animal in respect of the first-mentioned part of the State,

                that person shall, if required by an inspector or authorised person, deliver that animal into the custody of an inspector or authorised person at any place nominated by an inspector or authorised person.

        (2)         Where a declared animal has been delivered to a place pursuant to subsection (1) a person shall not remove the animal from that place without the prior written authority of the Protection Board or an inspector or authorised person.

        Penalty: For a first offence under subsection (1) or (2), not more than $500; for any subsequent offence under the same subsection, not more than $2 000.

        [Section 79 amended by No. 59 of 1986 s. 7; No. 20 of 1989 s. 3.]