Wild Animal Control Amendment Act 1978
Wild Animal Control Amendment Act 1978
Wild Animal Control Amendment Act 1978
Wild Animal Control Amendment Act 1978
Public Act |
1978 No 135 |
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Date of assent |
19 October 1978 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Wild Animal Control Act 1977
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title
This Act may be cited as the Wild Animal Control Amendment Act 1978, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Wild Animal Control Act 1977 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Ownership of wild animals
Section 9 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection (4), and substituting the following subsection:
“(4)
Where the carcass of any wild animal, including any specified wild animal, of a kind which may be farmed under any Act is to be sold or delivered to a game depot or game packing house by the person who killed the animal or by his agent or employer, it shall be an offence against this Act to so sell or deliver that carcass without the ears attached to the hide.”
3 Powers of Forest Officers
(1)
Section 13 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection (3), the following subsection:
“(3a)
Notwithstanding subsection (2) of this section, where the carcass of any wild animal is seized or removed from any place, it may be sold. The net proceeds received from the sale shall be paid into the Forest Service Deposit Account and shall be dealt with in accordance with subsection (2) of this section as if those proceeds and not the carcass had been the article seized.”
(2)
Section 13(7) of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “breach of this section”
, and substituting the words “offence against this Act”
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This Act is administered in the New Zealand Forest Service.