General restrictions on grant
162 General restrictions on grant
The chief executive must not grant a damage mitigation permit for an animal unless the permit is for 1 or more of the following purposes—
preventing damage or loss caused, or likely to be caused, by the animal;
preventing or minimising a threat, or potential threat, to human health or wellbeing caused, or likely to be caused, by the animal;
a purpose stated in a conservation plan applying to the animal.
Note—
See the Nature Conservation (Estuarine Crocodile) Conservation Plan 2018, section 22 about problem crocodiles.
The chief executive must not grant a damage mitigation permit for taking an animal by using a weapon to an individual who is under 17 years.
The chief executive must not grant a damage mitigation permit for a critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable or near threatened animal unless—
a conservation plan applying to the animal authorises a person holding a damage mitigation permit to take the animal; or
the permit requires any animal taken under the permit to be released into a prescribed natural habitat for the animal.
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