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Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1986
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15 Selling traps
(1) A person must not sell a trap that is not of a kind prescribed by regulations under this Act.
(2) A person who sells a trap of a kind prescribed by regulations under this Act must do so in accordance with those regulations.
2. 1200 penalty units, in the case of a body corporate.
(3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to the sale of traps to a museum or collector of traps.
S. 15AB inserted by No. 65/2007 s. 87.
15AB Setting or using traps
(1) A person must not set or use a trap that is not of a kind prescribed by regulations under this Act.
(2) A person who sets or uses a trap that is of a kind prescribed by regulations under this Act must do so in accordance with those regulations.
S. 15AB(3) amended by No. 35/2009 s. 107.
(3) A person must not set or use a large leghold trap of a prescribed kind in Victoria unless the person does so in an area that is declared by the Minister to be an area in which the setting or using of large leghold traps of that kind is permitted.
(4) A declaration of the Minister under subsection (3)—
(a) must be made by instrument published in the Government Gazette; and
(b) may identify an area by reference to a map, plan or diagram; and
(c) may be revoked in the same manner as that in which it is made.
S. 15A inserted by No. 77/1995 s. 13.