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Animal Welfare Act 1999

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

30D: Captured animals

You could also call this:

"Looking after animals you catch in the wild"

If you capture an animal from the wild, this Act applies to you as the person in charge of that animal, unless you caught it to kill it soon. You must follow the rules in the Act to make sure the animal is treated well. If you catch an animal to kill it soon, section 12(c) applies to how you kill the animal.

If you hunt and capture an animal in a safari park, these rules do not apply to you. You do not have to follow some other rules in section 30B if you farm or keep wild animals or pests as pets, except for some fish. This means you do not have to follow those rules for most pets or farmed animals.

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

30DCaptured animals

  1. If a person has in captivity an animal captured in a wild state (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.

  2. If a person has in captivity an animal captured in a wild state (not being an animal caught by fishing) for the purpose of facilitating its imminent destruction, section 12(c) applies in relation to the killing of that animal.

  3. Nothing in subsection (1) or (2) applies in relation to a wild animal that is hunted and captured in a safari park.

  4. Nothing in section 30B applies to any wild animal or pest that is farmed or kept as a pet (other than a pest fish that is caught from a freshwater fish farm by a recreational fisher).

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