Western Australian Consolidated Acts

WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ACT 1950

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   4.      Severability  
   6.      Interpretation, and declarations by Minister  
   7.      Administration  
   8.      Cost of administration  
   9.      Relationship to the Crown, government departments and local governments and other persons exercising rights or duties  
   14.     Protection of fauna  
   15.     Minister may issue licences  
   15A.    Ducks, geese and quail protected from recreational taking  
   16.     Taking of protected fauna an offence  
   16A.    Unlawful possession of protected fauna  
   17.     Certain dealings in fauna prohibited unless by authority of licence  
   17A.    Licences to process fauna and carry on processing establishments  
   18.     Royalty on skins  
   20.     Authority of wildlife officers  
   20A.    Powers of disposal and proceeds of sale  
   22.     Property in fauna  
   23.     Exemption in certain cases  
   23A.    Property in protected flora on Crown land  
   23B.    Protected flora on Crown land not to be taken without a licence  
   23C.    Licences to take protected flora on Crown land  
   23D.    Taking and sale of protected flora on private land  
   23DA.   Transitional  
   23E.    Dealings in protected flora  
   23F.    Rare or endangered species of flora  
   25.     Certain conduct prohibited  
   26.     Offences  
   26A.    Limitation period for prosecutions  
   27.     Forfeiture  
   27A.    Illegal devices, etc. found may be forfeited  
   27B.    Power to dispose of illegal devices and forfeited articles  
   27C.    Proof of exemption upon person pleading it  
   27D.    Presumption as to identity  
   28.     Regulations  
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