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PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT 1986 - SECT 15AB

Setting or using traps

    (1)     A person must not set or use a trap that is not of a kind prescribed by regulations under this Act.

Penalty:     240 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years, in the case of a natural person.

1200 penalty units, in the case of a body corporate.

    (2)     A person who sets or uses a trap that is of a kind prescribed by regulations under this Act must do so in accordance with those regulations.

Penalty:     240 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years, in the case of a natural person.

1200 penalty units, in the case of a body corporate.

S. 15AB(3) amended by No. 35/2009 s. 107.

    (3)     A person must not set or use a large leghold trap of a prescribed kind in Victoria unless the person does so in an area that is declared by the Minister to be an area in which the setting or using of large leghold traps of that kind is permitted.

Penalty:     240 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years, in the case of a natural person.

1200 penalty units, in the case of a body corporate.

    (4)     A declaration of the Minister under subsection (3)—

        (a)     must be made by instrument published in the Government Gazette; and

        (b)     may identify an area by reference to a map, plan or diagram; and

        (c)     may be revoked in the same manner as that in which it is made.

S. 15A inserted by No. 77/1995 s. 13.



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