Fauna Conservation Act Amendment Act 1970 (WA)

1970.] Fauna Conservation. [No. 53.

FAUNA CONSERVATION.

No. 53 of 1970.

AN ACT to amend the Fauna Conservation Act,

1950-1969.

[Assented to 5th November, 1970.]

RE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Fauna and citation.

Conservation Act Amendment Act, 1970.

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(2) In this Act the Fauna Conservation Act, 1950- 1969, is referred to as the principal Act.

reprinted

Acts

approved for

reprint 5th

July, 1968,

as amended

The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Fauna Conservation Act, 1950-	by Act No.
99 of 1969.

(3)

No. 53.1 Fauna Conservation. [1970.

Amendment

to s. 10.	2. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of sub-
(The Fauna

Protection

section (3) of section 10 of the principal Act is

Advisory

Committee.)

amended by deleting the words "and Chief Execu-

tive Officer thereof" in lines three and four.

Amendment

to s. 14.

(Protection 3. Subsection (2) of section 14 of the principal

of fauna.)

Act is amended by adding after paragraph (b) a

paragraph as f ollows-

(ba) The Minister may, from time to time by notice published in the Government Gazette, declare that any fauna specified in the notice is for the purposes of this Act fauna which is rare and likely to become extinct and while such declaration is in operation-

(i)  such fauna is wholly protected throughout the whole of the State at all times; and

(ii)    a person who commits an offence under section sixteen of this Act with respect to or in relation to such fauna is liable, notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, to a penalty of one thousand dollars. .

Amendment

to s. 16.	4. Subsection (1) of section 16 of the principal next succeeding section, or of section twenty-three" in lines eight and nine the passage "section seven- teen, or of section twenty-three of this Act".
(Taking of
protected	Act is amended by substituting for the passage "the
fauna an
offence.)
S. 16A

added. 5. The principal Act is amended by adding after

section 16 a section as follows-

Unlawful

possession of

protected	16A. A person who has in his possession the skin or carcass of any protected fauna, except where the fauna was lawfully taken, commits an offence against this Act. .
fauna.