Nature Conservation (Wildlife) Regulations 2021
13Buying or selling partly protected wildlife
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13 Buying or selling partly protected wildlife
(1) A person must not buy or sell partly protected wildlife, or a product of partly protected wildlife, unless the person is authorised to do so by a licence or permit.
Penalty: Fine not exceeding 100 penalty units.
(2) Subregulation (1) does not apply to a product of partly protected wildlife that is –
(a) an egg that was laid by a pheasant, or brown quail, that was held in captivity at the time at which the egg was so laid; or
(b) a juvenile muttonbird supplied by a person authorised by the Primary Produce Safety Act 2011 to process juvenile muttonbird; or
(c) the skin of a wallaby or brushtail possum if the skin has been subjected to a process for tanning or otherwise preserving the skin.