Wildlife Act 1975

Subject to subsection (2), the Secretary may license a person to do all or any of the following—

take or destroy wildlife (other than specified birds);

buy, sell, acquire, receive, dispose of, keep, possess, control, breed, process or display wildlife (other than specified birds).

The Game Management Authority may license a person to do all or any of the following in respect of specified birds—

take or destroy the birds;

buy, sell, acquire, receive, dispose of, keep, possess, control, breed or display the birds.

A licence—

must be in a prescribed category; and

is subject to any conditions, limitations and restrictions—

that are prescribed; and

that the Secretary or the Game Management Authority (as appropriate) imposes on the licence or on that category of licence; and

is subject to the condition that the holder of the licence must allow inspection by an authorised officer, at any reasonable time, of any dwelling house specified in the licence for the purpose of monitoring compliance with this Act, the regulations or the conditions of the licence.

If the regulations vary the conditions, limitations or restrictions on wildlife licences or a category of wildlife licences, the variation has effect, in relation to a wildlife licence in force at the time the regulation is made, upon the Secretary or the Game Management Authority (as appropriate) giving notice of the variation to the holder of the licence.

A person seeking the issue of a licence must apply to the Secretary or the Game Management Authority (as appropriate) in the prescribed manner for a prescribed category of licence and must pay the appropriate prescribed fee with the application.

A licence issued under this section does not authorise a person to take any wildlife from the wild or to destroy, buy, sell, dispose of, keep, possess, control, breed, process or display any wildlife taken from the wild unless the person is specifically authorised by the licence to do so.

A person who holds a licence who contravenes subsection (5) or any condition, limitation or restriction of the licence is guilty of an offence and liable to a penalty not exceeding 100 penalty units.

In addition to any other penalty to which the holder of a licence is liable under this Act, a court before which the holder is convicted of an offence against subsection (6) may impose any additional condition, limitation or restriction on the licence that the court thinks fit.