64Decision about trapping permit application

64 Decision about trapping permit application (1) On an application by a person for a trapping permit, the authority must— (a) grant the permit of the type applied for; or (b) refuse to grant the permit. (2) In deciding whether to grant the trapping permit, the authority must consider— (a) the species of animals to be trapped; and (b) the experience and competency of the applicant, and the applicant’s employees and agents, in trapping the animals; and (c) the adequacy of the applicant’s traps and other trapping equipment; and further information under section 63 (2); and

(e) whether the applicant has, within the 3 years immediately before (f) any criteria prescribed by regulation. (3) Subsection (2) does not limit the matters that the authority may renewal, of a trapping permit, means the grant of the permit that is to begin on the day after the day the permit being renewed ends.