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Conservation Act 1987

Infringement offences - Infringement offences - Conservation areas

51O: Hunting and other activities without, or not in compliance with, permit

You could also call this:

"No hunting or harming animals in conservation areas without following the rules."

If you are in a conservation area, you must not do certain things without a permit issued under section 26ZZH or 38(1), or if you do have a permit, you must not break the rules of that permit. You must not shoot any hunting weapons in a conservation area. You must not bother or chase any animals in a conservation area.

You must not catch, kill, or hurt any animals in a conservation area. You must not have any animals or animal products with you in a conservation area.

If you break these rules, you commit an offence. When we talk about animals in this rule, we do not mean fish.

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Part 6AInfringement offences
Infringement offences: Conservation areas

51OHunting and other activities without, or not in compliance with, permit

  1. A person must not, without a permit issued under section 26ZZH or 38(1), or in contravention of a condition of such a permit,—

  2. discharge any hunting weapon in, into, or over any conservation area; or
    1. molest or pursue any animal in a conservation area; or
      1. capture, kill, poison, tranquillise, trap, or immobilise by any means an animal in a conservation area; or
        1. have in the person’s possession an animal or animal product in a conservation area; or
          1. whether or not any animal product is taken, take or use, in or over a conservation area, an aircraft, dog, hunting weapon, net, poison, ship, snare, or vehicle to molest, pursue, capture, kill, poison, tranquillise, trap, or immobilise, by any means, an animal in the conservation area; or
            1. take any animal product while in a conservation area; or
              1. take or use, in or over a conservation area, an aircraft, dog, net, ship, or vehicle to take any animal product from the conservation area; or
                1. enter a conservation area with a hunting weapon, net, trap, or snare, or with poison; or
                  1. set a net, trap, or snare in a conservation area; or
                    1. allow an animal that the person is in charge of to molest, pursue, or kill any animal in a conservation area.

                      1. A person who fails to comply with this section commits an infringement offence.

                      2. For the purpose of subsection (1), animal does not include fish.

                      Notes
                      • Section 51O: inserted, on , by section 13 of the Conservation (Infringement System) Act 2018 (2018 No 61).