Decision about trapping permit application
64 Decision about trapping permit application
On an application by a person for a trapping permit, the authority must—
grant the permit of the type applied for; or
refuse to grant the permit.
In deciding whether to grant the trapping permit, the authority must consider—
the species of animals to be trapped; and
the experience and competency of the applicant, and the applicant’s employees and agents, in trapping the animals; and
the adequacy of the applicant’s traps and other trapping equipment; and
the applicant’s response (or lack of response) to any request for further information under section 63 (2); and
whether the applicant has, within the 3 years immediately before the date of the application, been convicted or found guilty of a defined offence; and
any criteria prescribed by regulation.
Subsection (2) does not limit the matters that the authority may consider.
In this section:
applicant includes, if the applicant is a corporation, each executive officer of the corporation.
grant includes grant by way of renewal.
renewal, of a trapping permit, means the grant of the permit that is to begin on the day after the day the permit being renewed ends.
This provision refers to the regulations (prescribed by regulation
). Made under this Act:
- Animal Welfare Regulation 2001 · under s 112
This Act’s bill:Explanatory statement
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