Defence — stock fending for itself
26 Defence — stock fending for itself
It is a defence to a charge under section 19(1) committed in circumstances described in section 19(3)(d), (e) or (f) for a person to prove that —
the animal is stock of a kind that is ordinarily left to roam at large on a pastoral property and to fend for itself; and
the act alleged to constitute the offence does not involve anything more than allowing the animal to so roam and fend for itself; and
the property on which the animal was roaming was reasonably capable of sustaining all the animals that were roaming on it.
In this section —
stock has the meaning given to that term in the Biosecurity and Agriculture Management Act 2007 section 6.
[Section 26 amended: No. 24 of 2007 s. 84.]
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