Game and Feral Animal Control Act 2002 (NSW)

Game and Feral Animal Control Act 2002 No 64

An Act to manage and regulate the hunting of game; and for other purposes.

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Name of Act This Act is the Game and Feral Animal Control Act 2002.

2 Commencement This Act commences on a day or days to be appointed by proclamation.

3 Objects The objects of this Act are— (a) to provide for the effective management of introduced species of game animals, and (b) to promote responsible and orderly hunting of those game animals on public and private land and of certain pest animals on public land.

Note— Schedule 3 specifies the animals (including certain pest animals) that are game animals for the purposes of this Act.

4 Definitions In this Act— declared public hunting land means public land that is the subject of a declaration in force under section 20. exercise a function includes perform a duty. function includes a power, authority or duty. Game and Pest Management Advisory Board or Advisory Board means the Game and Pest Management Advisory Board constituted under Part 2. game animal—see section 5. game hunting licence means a licence granted under Part 3 and in force (being a general game hunting licence or a restricted game hunting licence). hunt means to search for, pursue, trail, stalk or drive out an animal in order to capture or kill the animal— (a) including using a firearm, bow, animal or other hunting device to capture or kill the animal, but (b) not including laying or using poison for that purpose. inspector means an inspector appointed under Division 1 of Part 4.

Note— Section 34 provides that a police officer may exercise the functions of an inspector under this Act, and for that purpose is taken to be an inspector. national park estate land means— (a) any land reserved, dedicated or declared under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 or any land vested in the Minister administering that Act for the purposes of Part 11 of that Act, or (b) any dedicated or reserved Crown land under the Crown Land Management Act 2016 of which the National Parks and Wildlife Reserve Trust is the Crown land manager, or (c) any land that is declared to be a wilderness area under the Wilderness Act 1987, and any land the subject of a wilderness protection agreement under section 10 of that Act that has not been declared to be a wilderness area. native game bird means a game animal listed in Part 1A of Schedule 3. native game bird management licence means a licence granted under Part 3A and in force. occupier and owner have the same meanings as they have in the Local Government Act 1993. premises includes any place, and in particular includes— (a) any land, building or part of any building, or (b) any vehicle, vessel or aircraft, or (c) any installation on land, on the bed of any waters or floating on any waters, or (d) any tent or movable structure. private land means land other than— (a) any public land, or (b) (Repealed) (c) any other land of a kind prescribed by the regulations. public land means— (a) Crown land within the meaning of the Crown Land Management Act 2016, or (b) State forest, or (b1) national park estate land, or (c) land under the control and management of a public or local authority that is declared by the regulations, on the recommendation of the authority, to be public land for the purposes of this Act, but does not include— (d) any land (other than State forest) that is occupied under any lease or other arrangement for private purposes that confers a right to exclusive possession of the land, or (e) (Repealed) (f) any land leased under a Western lands lease within the meaning of Schedule 3 to the Crown Land Management Act 2016, or (g) any other land of a kind prescribed by the regulations. Regulatory Authority means the Secretary of Regional NSW. State forest has the same meaning it has in the Forestry Act 2012.