New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
(1) This Act shall apply to all land, having regard to the provisions of any Act applying to the land, and shall be for the purposes of controlling wild animals generally, and of eradicating wild animals locally where necessary and practicable, as dictated by proper land use.
(2) This Act shall be administered, having regard to the general purposes specified in subsection (1) of this section, so as to—
(a) Ensure concerted action against the damaging effects of wild animals on vegetation, soils, waters, and wildlife; and
(b) Achieve co-ordination of hunting measures; and
(c) Provide for the regulation of recreational hunting, commercial hunting, wild animal recovery operations, and the training and employment of staff.
Subsection (2)(c) was amended, as from 1 October 1999, by section 3 Wild Animal Control Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 80) by inserting, after the word “recovery”
, the word “operations”
.