Statutes Amendment Bill (No 2)

This Act is the Statutes Amendment Act (No 2) . This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent. This amends the Animal Welfare Act 1999 (the ). Replace section 36(1) with: A person who, for the purpose of capturing alive a mammal, bird, reptile, or amphibian, sets a trap or causes a trap to be set must— manually inspect that trap, or cause a competent person to manually inspect that trap, within 12 hours after sunrise on each day the trap remains set, beginning on the day immediately after the day on which the trap is set; or manually inspect that trap, or cause a competent person to manually inspect that trap, within 24 hours after the capture of an animal in the trap, but this paragraph applies only if— the person monitors the trap with an elect