Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) A person must not
be in possession of any thing with the intention of using the thing to inflict
cruelty on an animal.
Penalty: $20 000 and imprisonment for one year.
(2) It is a defence to
a charge under subsection (1) for a person to prove that the thing was a
prescribed thing and that the person was a prescribed person, or was in a
prescribed class of persons, in respect of the thing.
(3) It is a defence to
a charge under subsection (1) for a person to prove that if the person had
used the thing on or in relation to an animal the person would have had a
defence to a resulting charge under section 19.