Assisting injured animal
10 Assisting injured animal
A person commits an offence if the person—
injures an animal; and
does not take reasonable steps to assist with the animal’s injury.
Examples
1 contacting a relevant person
2 seeking veterinary treatment
Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units, imprisonment for 1 year or both.
A person commits an offence if—
the person injures a mammal; and
the person knows, or ought to know because of the circumstances, the animal is injured; and
the person is not a person in charge of the animal; and
the person fails to tell a relevant person, within 2 hours after the injury—
that the animal is injured; and
the location where the animal was injured.
Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.
Example—circumstances if a car hits a mammal—the size of the animal, witness accounts that the driver swerved or braked to avoid the animal or stopped after hitting the animal
An offence against subsection (2) is a strict liability offence.
In this section:
Access Canberra means the business unit known as Access Canberra.
If the name of Access Canberra changes, the reference to Access Canberra is taken to be a reference to its new name (see Legislation Act, s 183).
relevant person means—
if a domestic animal was injured—a person in charge of the animal; or
the authority; or
an inspector; or
Access Canberra.
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