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ANIMAL WELFARE ACT 2002 - SECT 7

ANIMAL WELFARE ACT 2002 - SECT 7

7.         Carrying on business s upplying animals for scientific purposes

        (1)         Subject to subsection (2), a person must not carry on a business of supplying animals for use for scientific purposes except in accordance with a licence authorising the person to do so.

        Penalty: $50 000 and imprisonment for 5 years.

        (2)         Subsection (1) does not apply to a person carrying on a business of supplying fauna that the person is licensed or authorised under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 to take for the purposes of that business.

        [Section 7 amended: No. 24 of 2016 s. 310(4).]