Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 229D

Treating unlawfully killed or taken cetaceans

             (1)  A person is guilty of an offence if:

                     (a)  the person treats a cetacean; and

                     (b)  the cetacean has been:

                              (i)  killed in contravention of section 229 or 229A; or

                             (ii)  taken in contravention of section 229B or 229C.

Note 1:       Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code sets out the general principles of criminal responsibility.

Note 2:       This section does not apply in the circumstances described in section 231. A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to those circumstances. See subsection 13.3(3) of the Criminal Code .

             (2)  An offence against subsection (1) is punishable on conviction by imprisonment for not more than 2 years or a fine not exceeding 1,000 penalty units, or both.

Treating unlawfully imported cetaceans

          (2A)  A person commits an offence if:

                     (a)  the person treats a cetacean; and

                     (b)  the cetacean has been unlawfully imported.

Note 1:       Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code sets out the general principles of criminal responsibility.

Note 2:       Subsection 4B(3) of the Crimes Act 1914 lets a court fine a body corporate up to 5 times the maximum amount the court could fine a person under this subsection.

          (2B)  An offence against subsection (2A) is punishable on conviction by imprisonment for not more than 5 years or a fine not exceeding 1,000 penalty units, or both.

             (3)  In this Act:

"treat" a cetacean means divide or cut up, or extract any product from, the cetacean.