Commonwealth Numbered Acts

WILDLIFE PROTECTION (REGULATION OF EXPORTS AND IMPORTS) AMENDMENT ACT 1986 No. 120 of 1986 - SECT 4

4. Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (5) and
substituting the following sub-section:

"(5) Subject to sub-sections (1), (2), (3) and (4), where, in accordance with
the Quarantine Act 1908 or a law of an external Territory relating to
quarantine, a person exercising powers under that Act or law imports a
specimen that is subject to quarantine, then, for the purposes of this Act,
that specimen shall be deemed to have been imported by -

   (a)  where a person holds a permit or an authority to import that
specimen - the holder of that permit or authority; or

   (b)  in any other case - a person whose identity is not known, but this
        sub-section shall not affect the commission of any offence committed
        before the importation of that specimen.".