Shooting, hunting or fighting captive animals
32 Shooting, hunting or fighting captive animals
A person must not engage in a prohibited activity.
Penalty: Minimum — $2 000.
Maximum — $50 000 and imprisonment for 5 years.
Without limiting subsection (1), a person engages in a prohibited activity if the person —
takes part in it; or
spectates at it; or
organises it; or
promotes it; or
keeps an animal for the purpose of it; or
allows it to occur at a place owned or operated by the person; or
in the case of the activities described in paragraphs (c) and (d) of the definition of “prohibited activity”, encourages an animal to participate in it.
It is a defence to a charge under subsection (1) for a person to prove that the activity the subject of the charge was a prescribed activity.
It is a defence to a charge under subsection (1) where the activity the subject of the charge is the releasing of an animal for the purposes of it being hunted by another animal for a person to prove that —
the animal was released as food for a predatory animal kept in captivity; and
the diet of captive predatory animals of that kind ordinarily includes animals of the kind released; and
the captive predatory animal will not ordinarily eat dead meat.
In this section —
prohibited activity means an activity that involves releasing an animal, or putting an animal somewhere, for the purpose of enabling the animal to be —
shot at (whether with a firearm or any other weapon); or
hunted by a person or another animal; or
fought by a person or another animal; or
chased by another animal, other than an animal of the same species.
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