Animal Welfare Act 1992
18Rodeos and game parks
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18 Rodeos and game parks (1) A person commits an offence if the person conducts or takes part in a rodeo. (2) A person commits an offence if the person promotes or conducts a game park.
game park means premises where— (a) animals other than fish are confined; and (b) the taking and killing of those animals as a sport or recreation is permitted on payment of a fee or other consideration. rodeo means a public exhibition, including a competition, of activities derived from work on a cattle station including riding horses or steers bareback and roping calves. take, in relation to an animal, includes hunt, shoot, poison, net, snare, spear, pursue, capture and injure the animal.