Victorian Numbered Acts

WILDLIFE AMENDMENT (MARINE MAMMALS) ACT 2008 (NO. 45 OF 2008) - SECT 10

    (1)     Insert the following heading to section 45 of the Wildlife Act 1975 —

" Acquiring etc. threatened wildlife ".

    (2)     In section 45(1) of the Wildlife Act 1975 , for "endangered wildlife" substitute "threatened wildlife".

    (3)     For section 45(2) of the Wildlife Act 1975 substitute —

    "(2)     Subsection (1) does not apply to a person—

        (a)     who holds a licence or authorisation that authorises the buying, selling, acquiring, receiving, disposing of, keeping, possessing, controlling, breeding, processing, displaying, taking samples from or experimenting on threatened wildlife, when that person is acting in accordance with the licence or authorisation; or

        (b)     who is a member of a class of person in respect of whom an authorisation order has been made that authorises the buying, selling, acquiring, receiving, disposing of, keeping, possessing, controlling, breeding, processing, displaying, taking samples from or experimenting on threatened wildlife, when that person is acting in accordance with the order.".