Game and Feral Animal Control Act 2002
5Game animals for the purposes of this Act
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5 Game animals for the purposes of this Act
5 Game animals for the purposes of this Act
(1) For the purposes of this Act, a game animal is any animal specified in Schedule 3 that is living in the wild.
(2) The Minister may, by order published on the NSW legislation website, amend Schedule 3—
(a) by adding the name or description of any animal (other than an animal of a species that was native to Australia before European settlement), or
(b) by omitting or amending any such name or description.
(3) Despite any other provision of this section, a game animal does not include any animal that is or is part of a threatened species, population or ecological community within the meaning of the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995.
s 5: Subst 2012 No 52, Sch 1 [6].