Nature Conservation (Macropod Harvesting) Amendment Conservation Plan (No. 1) 1998 (Qld)

Queensland Subordinate Legislation 1998 No. 361 Nature Conservation Act 1992 NATURE CONSERVATION (MACROPOD HARVESTING) AMENDMENT CONSERVATION PLAN (No. 1) 1998 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Section Page 1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 Plan amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 Replacement of s 10 (Way macropod must be harvested) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 10 Way of taking macropods under this plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 10A Offence to muster or trap macropods to take . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 Amendment of s 11 (Harvested macropods to be tagged) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5 Amendment of s 15 (Movement of macropods harvested under a commercial wildlife harvesting licence) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

s1 2 s3 Nature Conservation (Macropod Harvesting) No. 361, 1998 Amendment Conservation (No. 1) ˙ Short title 1. This conservation plan may be cited as the Nature Conservation (Macropod Harvesting) Amendment Conservation Plan (No. 1) 1998 . ˙ Plan amended 2. This plan amends the Nature Conservation (Macropod Harvesting) Conservation Plan 1994 . ˙ Replacement of s 10 (Way macropod must be harvested) 3. Section 10— omit, insert— ˙ ‘ Way of taking macropods under this plan ‘ 10.(1) Subject to subsection (3), a licensee may take a macropod under this plan only in the way specified in the Code of Practice for the Humane Shooting of Kangaroos, approved by the Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council. 1 ‘ (2) A licensee who takes a macropod in contravention of subsection (1) commits an offence. Maximum penalty—165 penalty units. ‘ (3) The reference in schedule 1 of the Code to ‘the muzzle velocity of 975 m/sec (3200 ft/sec)’ is taken to be a reference to ‘the muzzle velocity of 883 m/sec (2900 ft/sec).’. ˙ ‘ Offence to muster or trap macropods to take ‘ 10A. A licensee must not muster or trap a macropod for the purpose of taking it. Maximum penalty—165 penalty units.’. 1 At the time of approval the Council was known as the Council of Nature Conservation Ministers.

s4 3 s5 Nature Conservation (Macropod Harvesting) No. 361, 1998 Amendment Conservation (No. 1) ˙ Amendment of s 11 (Harvested macropods to be tagged) 4. Section 11(2)— omit, insert— ‘ (2) The tag must be attached to the macropod before the first of the following happens— (a) the licensee stops shooting on the night the macropod is taken; (b) the licensee leaves the land where the macropod is taken.’. ˙ Amendment of s 15 (Movement of macropods harvested under a commercial wildlife harvesting licence) 5. Section 15(3)(a), after ‘store’— insert— ‘tagged’. ENDNOTES 1. Approved by the Governor in Council on 17 December 1998. 2. Notified in the gazette on 18 December 1998. 3. Laid before the Legislative Assembly on . . . 4. The administering agency is the Department of Environment and Heritage. © State of Queensland 1998