Section 113 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection (2) the following subsections:

(3)  However, subsection (2) does not apply to a police officer or animal welfare officer who, acting responsibly in the course of his or her employment, discharges a tranquiliser gun or other firearm within 250 metres of a dwelling house in order to –

(a) avert or control a threat to life or property posed by a dangerous, injured, diseased or potentially diseased animal; or

(b) end the suffering of an injured or diseased animal.

(4)  In this section –

animal welfare officer means a person referred to in any paragraph of section 42 .