New South Wales Consolidated Acts

GAME AND FERAL ANIMAL CONTROL ACT 2002 - SECT 5

5 Game animals for the purposes of this Act

(1) For the purposes of this Act, a
"game animal" is any animal specified in Schedule 3 that is living in the wild.

(2) The Minister may, by order published on the NSW legislation website, amend Schedule 3--

(a) by adding the name or description of any animal (other than an animal of a species that was native to Australia before European settlement), or

(b) by omitting or amending any such name or description.

(3) Despite any other provision of this section, a game animal does not include any animal that is or is part of a threatened species, population or ecological community within the meaning of the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 .