Victorian Current Acts

WILDLIFE ACT 1975 - SECT 58D

During an open season for duck, a person must not approach to within a distance of 10 metres or less from a person who is carrying a firearm or hunting or taking game birds in a specified hunting area unless the person who so approaches—

        (a)     is hunting or taking game birds from the same boat, the same hide or blind or the same natural cover as the other person; or

        (b)     is supervising the other person in hunting or taking game birds; or

S. 58D(c) amended by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 184.4).

        (c)     is an authorised officer or a police officer acting in the course of his or her duty; or

S. 58D(d) amended by No. 24/2014 s. 47.

        (d)     is acting in accordance with the authorisation of the Game Management Authority.

Penalty:     60 penalty units.

S. 58E inserted by No. 87/1997
s. 20, amended by No. 11/2014 s. 22.