Thread: Help Stop 1080, please sign

Originally Posted by tanqueray

I’m 99% sure deer are not classed as “pests”.

Unless the Noxious Animals act of 1956 has been repealed deer remain classed as noxious as far as I'm aware.

Originally Posted by bing

Unless the Noxious Animals act of 1956 has been repealed deer remain classed as noxious as far as I'm aware.

@bing

Wild Animal Control Act:

Schedule
Enactments repealed
s 44
Noxious Animals Act 1956 (1956 No 6) (1957 Reprint, Vol 11, p 317)
Noxious Animals Amendment Act 1962 (1962 No 42)
Noxious Animals Amendment Act 1967 (1967 No 143)

Originally Posted by bing

Unless the Noxious Animals act of 1956 has been repealed deer remain classed as noxious as far as I'm aware.

As per @Tahr’s post, that act isn’t current. Deer are classified as “wild animals”. This means that they can be subject to control, however nowhere to my knowledge are they classified as pests/noxious animals in current legislation.

Originally Posted by tanqueray

As per @Tahr’s post, that act isn’t current. Deer are classified as “wild animals”. This means that they can be subject to control, however nowhere to my knowledge are they classified as pests/noxious animals in current legislation.

I understood that the act has been amended on a number of occasions and that the Wild Animal Act 77 which is an amended version of the 1969 act maintains the understanding of deer as a pest species that requires management and covers the containment of pest species and the obligations of people who wish to contain (farm) deer.

I need to re read that to be sure and as always I'm happy to be corrected.

At any rate the various amendments from memory are or were in alignment with the shift from crown funded culling to encouraging and expanding recreational hunting as a means of contributing to control measures as well as the increasing commercial harvesting of deer (venison being worth a bob or two really helped).