Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Regulation 2025
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42 Prohibited traps
42 Prohibited traps
(1) For the Act, section 23(1)—
(a) a glue trap is prescribed as a type of trap that must not be set unless the glue trap—
(i) has a cage or other protection which prevents an animal from contact with the glue, adhesive material or viscid substance used in the trap, or
(ii) is otherwise designed to prevent the capture of an animal in the trap, and
(b) the whole of New South Wales is prescribed as the part of New South Wales in which the trap must not be set.
(2) In this section—
glue trap means a trap that—
(a) is capable of trapping an animal, and
(b) uses glue, adhesive material or viscid substance that is non-drying as the mode of capture.