Harm to swamphens, raven, crow, cockatoo or galah (section 2.9)
2.21 Harm to swamphens, raven, crow, cockatoo or galah (section 2.9)
It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence under section 2.1 of the Act if the person charged establishes that the act that constitutes the offence was causing harm to any of the following species of animal and was not for sporting or recreational purposes—
purple swamphens (Porphyrio porphyrio)—but only if—
the harm is for the purpose of mitigating damage to commercial rice crops, and
the harm occurs between 1 December and the following 30 April, and
the harm occurs in the Riverina and Murray Local Land Services regions, and
the harm does not occur in national park estate and other conservation areas,
Australian raven (Corvus coronoides), forest raven (Corvus tasmanicus), little raven (Corvus mellori), Australian crow (Corvus orru) or little crow (Corvus bennetti)—but only if the harm occurs outside the Greater Sydney Local Land Services region, and outside national park estate and other conservation areas,
sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) or galah (Eolophus roseicapillus)—but only if the harm occurs in the Western, North West, Central West, Riverina and Murray Local Land Services regions, and outside national park estate and other conservation areas.
Note.
See also section 6A of the Game and Feral Animal Control Act 2002.
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