Shooting, hunting or fighting captive animals
(1) A person must not engage in a prohibited activity.
Penalty: Minimum — $2 000.
Maximum — $50 000 and imprisonment for 5 years.
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), a person engages in a prohibited activity if the person —
(a) takes part in it;
(b) spectates at it;
(c) organises it;
(d) promotes it;
(e) keeps an animal for the purpose of it;
(f) allows it to occur at a place owned or operated by the person; or
(g) in the case of the activities described in paragraphs (c) and (d) of the definition of “prohibited activity”, encourages an animal to participate in it.
(3) It is a defence to a charge under subsection (1) for a person to prove that the activity the subject of the charge was a prescribed activity.
(4) It is a defence to a charge under subsection (1) where the activity the subject of the charge is the releasing of an animal for the purposes of it being hunted by another animal for a person to prove that —
(a) the animal was released as food for a predatory animal kept in captivity;
(b) the diet of captive predatory animals of that kind ordinarily includes animals of the kind released; and
(c) the captive predatory animal will not ordinarily eat dead meat.
(5) In this section —
prohibited activity means an activity that involves releasing an animal, or putting an animal somewhere, for the purpose of enabling the animal to be —
(a) shot at (whether with a firearm or any other weapon);
(b) hunted by a person or another animal;
(c) fought by a person or another animal; or
(d) chased by another animal, other than an animal of the same species.