Western Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ACT 1950

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Short title
            
   2.      Commencement
            
   4.      Severability
            
   6.      Terms used, and declarations by Minister
            
   7.      Administration
            
   8.      Cost of administration
            
   9.      Relationship to Crown, government departments and local governments and other persons exercising rights or duties
            
   14.     Protection of fauna
            
   15.     Minister may issue licences
            
   15A.    Ducks, geese and quail protected from recreational taking
            
   16.     Taking of protected fauna an offence
            
   16A.    Unlawful possession of protected fauna
            
   17.     Certain dealings in fauna prohibited unless by authority of licence
            
   17A.    Licences to process fauna and carry on processing establishments
            
   18.     Royalty on skins
            
   20.     Authority of wildlife officers
            
   20A.    Powers of disposal and proceeds of sale
            
   22.     Property in fauna
            
   23.     Aboriginal persons may take flora and fauna for customary purposes
            
   23A.    Property in protected flora on Crown land
            
   23B.    Protected flora on Crown land not to be taken without licence
            
   23C.    Licences to take protected flora on Crown land
            
   23D.    Taking and sale of protected flora on private land
            
   23DA.   Transitional
            
   23E.    Dealings in protected flora
            
   23F.    Rare or endangered species of flora
            
   25.     Certain conduct prohibited
            
   26.     Offences
            
   26A.    Limitation period for prosecutions
            
   27.     Forfeiture
            
   27A.    Illegal devices etc. found may be forfeited
            
   27B.    Power to dispose of illegal devices and forfeited articles
            
   27C.    Proof of exemption upon person pleading it
            
   27D.    Presumption as to identity
            
   28.     Regulations
            
           Provisions that have not come into operation
           Defined terms
           Compilation table