New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 2016 - SECT 2.6

2.6 Liberating animals

(1) A person who, without authority, liberates in New South Wales any animal (other than a captured protected animal) is guilty of an offence.

(2) A person who, without authority, liberates a captured protected animal in a place other than the place of its capture is guilty of an offence.

(3) In this section,
"without authority" means without the authority conferred by a biodiversity conservation licence under Division 3 or by the regulations.

: Maximum penalty--Tier 3 monetary penalty.