86Veterinary practitioners

86 Veterinary practitioners (1) If, in the opinion of a veterinary practitioner— (a) an animal is so severely injured, so diseased or in such a physical condition that it is cruel to keep it alive; and (b) the animal is not about to be destroyed, or is about to be destroyed in a manner that will inflict unnecessary pain on the animal; the veterinary practitioner may— (c) seize the animal; and (d) give assistance to the animal; and (e) remove the animal to such place as the veterinary practitioner thinks fit; and (f) destroy the animal, or cause it to be destroyed, in a manner that causes it to die quickly and without unnecessary pain. (2) The reasonable expenses incurred by a veterinary practitioner in the exercise of a power conferred by subsection (1) in relation to an animal may be recovered from the owner of the animal as a debt in a court of competent jurisdiction.

Dealing with seized animals Division 7.6A