Animal Welfare Act 1999

Conduct towards animals - Ill-treating, hunting, or killing wild animals or animals in wild state

30C: Hunting in safari parks

You could also call this:

"Hunting animals in safari parks is allowed, but you must follow animal welfare rules."

If you hunt a wild animal in a safari park, this Act does not make it against the law. You can hunt animals that are available for hunting in these parks. This rule has some exceptions, which are explained in sections like sections 30A and 30E and Part 6.

If you catch a wild animal in a safari park, you are in charge of that animal. This means the rules in this Act apply to you and how you treat the animal. You have to follow these rules unless the animal was caught to be destroyed soon.

When you hunt and capture an animal in a safari park, you have to follow the rules in this Act. These rules are important for the welfare of the animal. You must make sure you follow the rules, like those in section 30B, to take care of the animal.

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Part 2Conduct towards animals
Ill-treating, hunting, or killing wild animals or animals in wild state

30CHunting in safari parks

  1. Nothing in this Act makes it unlawful to hunt a wild animal that is available for hunting in a safari park.

  2. Subsection (1) is subject to subsection (3) and to sections 30A and 30E and Part 6.

  3. Despite subsection (1) and section 30B, if a person has hunted and captured a wild animal in a safari park (not being an animal that has been captured for the purpose of facilitating its imminent destruction), this Act applies in relation to that person as the person in charge of that animal.

Notes
  • Section 30C: inserted, on , by section 20 of the Animal Welfare Amendment Act (No 2) 2015 (2015 No 49).