Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

ANIMAL WELFARE ACT 1992 - SECT 64

    (1)     On an application by a person for a trapping permit, the authority must—

        (a)     grant the permit of the type applied for; or

        (b)     refuse to grant the permit.

    (2)     In deciding whether to grant the trapping permit, the authority must consider—

        (a)     the species of animals to be trapped; and

        (b)     the experience and competency of the applicant, and the applicant's employees and agents, in trapping the animals; and

        (c)     the adequacy of the applicant's traps and other trapping equipment; and

        (d)     the applicant's response (or lack of response) to any request for further information under section 63 (2); and

        (e)     whether the applicant has, within the 3 years immediately before the date of the application, been convicted or found guilty of a defined offence; and

        (f)     any criteria prescribed by regulation.

    (3)     Subsection (2) does not limit the matters that the authority may consider.

    (4)     In this section:

"applicant "includes, if the applicant is a corporation, each executive officer of the corporation.

"grant "includes grant by way of renewal.

"renewal", of a trapping permit, means the grant of the permit that is to begin on the day after the day the permit being renewed ends.