Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) A person must not
engage in a prohibited activity.
Penalty: Minimum
— $2 000.
Maximum — $50
000 and imprisonment for 5 years.
(2) Without limiting
subsection (1), a person engages in a prohibited activity if the person
—
(a)
takes part in it; or
(b)
spectates at it; or
(c)
organises it; or
(d)
promotes it; or
(e)
keeps an animal for the purpose of it; or
(f)
allows it to occur at a place owned or operated by the person; or
(g) in
the case of the activities described in paragraphs (c) and (d) of the
definition of “prohibited activity”, encourages an animal to
participate in it.
(3) It is a defence to
a charge under subsection (1) for a person to prove that the activity the
subject of the charge was a prescribed activity.
(4) It is a defence to
a charge under subsection (1) where the activity the subject of the charge is
the releasing of an animal for the purposes of it being hunted by another
animal for a person to prove that —
(a) the
animal was released as food for a predatory animal kept in captivity; and
(b) the
diet of captive predatory animals of that kind ordinarily includes animals of
the kind released; and
(c) the
captive predatory animal will not ordinarily eat dead meat.
(5) In this section
—
prohibited activity means an activity that
involves releasing an animal, or putting an animal somewhere, for the purpose
of enabling the animal to be —
(a) shot
at (whether with a firearm or any other weapon); or
(b)
hunted by a person or another animal; or
(c)
fought by a person or another animal; or
(d)
chased by another animal, other than an animal of the same species.