(1)

A person must not cause or allow an animal owned by, or in the charge of, the person, to enter or remain in a Commonwealth reserve.

Penalty:
20 penalty units.

(2)

A person is taken to have contravened subregulation (1) if the person places a beehive in a Commonwealth reserve.

(3)

However, subregulation (1) does not apply to:

(a)

the use of a dog or animal that:

(i)

is a guide dog used by a blind person, a hearing dog used by a deaf person or an assistance animal used by a person with a disability; and

(ii)

is at all times restrained on a lead not more than 3 metres in length; or

(b)

taking the carcass of an animal into a Commonwealth reserve as food for the person or a dog or animal mentioned in paragraph (a); or

(c)

a person, if the animal is confined to a vessel and the person is on a vessel in passage through a marine area.

(4)

A person who, in accordance with a permit or other authority under these Regulations, takes an animal into, or has in his or her possession an animal in, a Commonwealth reserve must not:

(a)

allow the animal to be at large; or

(b)

fail to remove the animal from the reserve:

(i)

if the person lives in the reserve — when the person ceases to live there; or

(ii)

in any other case — when the person leaves the reserve.

Penalty:
20 penalty units.

(5)

A person who takes the carcass of an animal into a Commonwealth reserve as food must not, within 50 metres of an area of water in the reserve, dismember, disembowel or skin the carcass.

Penalty:
20 penalty units.

(6)

It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence under paragraph (4) (b) that the person has transferred the ownership of the animal to another person in the reserve in accordance with the permit or authority.