sec.162General restrictions on grant

sec.162 General restrictions on grant

The chief executive must not grant a damage mitigation permit for an animal unless the permit is for 1 or more of the following purposes— preventing damage or loss caused, or likely to be caused, by the animal; preventing or minimising a threat, or potential threat, to human health or wellbeing caused, or likely to be caused, by the animal; a purpose stated in a conservation plan applying to the animal. See the Nature Conservation (Estuarine Crocodile) Conservation Plan 2018 , section 22 about problem crocodiles. The chief executive must not grant a damage mitigation permit for taking an animal by using a weapon to an individual who is under 17 years. The chief executive must not grant a damage mitigation permit for a critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable or near threatened animal unless— a conservation plan applying to the animal authorises a person holding a damage mitigation permit to take the animal; or the permit requires any animal taken under the permit to be released into a prescribed natural habitat for the animal. (sec.162-ssec.1) The chief executive must not grant a damage mitigation permit for an animal unless the permit is for 1 or more of the following purposes— preventing damage or loss caused, or likely to be caused, by the animal; preventing or minimising a threat, or potential threat, to human health or wellbeing caused, or likely to be caused, by the animal; a purpose stated in a conservation plan applying to the animal. See the Nature Conservation (Estuarine Crocodile) Conservation Plan 2018 , section 22 about problem crocodiles. (sec.162-ssec.2) The chief executive must not grant a damage mitigation permit for taking an animal by using a weapon to an individual who is under 17 years. (sec.162-ssec.3) The chief executive must not grant a damage mitigation permit for a critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable or near threatened animal unless— a conservation plan applying to the animal authorises a person holding a damage mitigation permit to take the animal; or the permit requires any animal taken under the permit to be released into a prescribed natural habitat for the animal.

• (a) preventing damage or loss caused, or likely to be caused, by the animal;
• (b) preventing or minimising a threat, or potential threat, to human health or wellbeing caused, or likely to be caused, by the animal;
• (c) a purpose stated in a conservation plan applying to the animal. Note— See the Nature Conservation (Estuarine Crocodile) Conservation Plan 2018 , section 22 about problem crocodiles.
• (a) a conservation plan applying to the animal authorises a person holding a damage mitigation permit to take the animal; or
• (b) the permit requires any animal taken under the permit to be released into a prescribed natural habitat for the animal.