Licensing information and forms

Before you may purchase a reptile in the State of Western Australia you must obtain a Pet Herpetofauna Keepers license, for the specified reptile you wish to keep. Check the Keepers list for the license that is required.

Please read and understand the rules and regulations of your Pet Herpetofauna Keepers license, there is no excuse for not complying and the DEC will prosecute if you do break any of them. For your convenience I have added the regulations after the forms for you to read.

Please find below the links for the Current License application form, Quarterly Keepers Record Sheet and the Current Keepers list!

1. Pet Herpetofauna Keepers License Application

http://www.reptiletrader.com.au/images/Docs/pet_reptile_keepers_appformCC1.pdf

Print off the license application form, fill it in and forward it to the address at the top by mail or fax, you may pay over the phone by credit card or by postal order or over the counter at the DEC.

2. Quarterly Record Keeping Sheet

http://www.reptiletrader.com.au/images/Docs/Blank_Quarterly_Keepers_Record.doc

This sheet must be submitted to the DEC every quarter (every three months), once you have obtained a Keepers license. A separate sheet is required for each species that is kept.

3. Current Keepers List

http://www.reptiletrader.com.au/images/Docs/ApprovedReptilesKeepersList.doc

This is the most important list of all, you are not allowed to keep any other reptile that is not on this list, no ifs, buts or maybes.

You must be over the age of 18 to keep any of the reptiles in Category 3 to 5. If parents believe that their child is responsible enough to have any of the species in Cat 3 they may obtain the license on their behalf.

In short the regulations mean that :

1. You may not import any Pythons from the Eastern States, this is because of the disease IBD. Western Australia has the strictist quarantine laws in Australia and this prohibition is to keep our unique pythons safe.

2. You may not take a reptile from the wild - large fines if you do.

3. You may only purchase or sell your reptile through a licensed dealer. (Dont buy it off a friend if they are not a licensed dealer, you and your friend could both end up losing your license and the reptiles involved)

4. You must at all times provide adequate care for your reptile, research, research, research.

5. You must submit your quarterly keepers record sheet, accurately and on time, if not this could jeapordise the future of upgrading your license.

6. You may not release your reptile in the wild.

7. You are not permitted to feed it live vertebrates (ie mice, rats, lizards)

8. You may sell one clutch of one species in a calender year. Only to a licensed dealer.

DEC Rules and Regulations

D.E.C. Rules and Regulations

LICENSE REGULATIONS FOR KEEPING A REPTILE IN THE STATE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

THE KEEPER MAY KEEP THE SPECIES OF FAUNA LISTED FOR THEIR CATEGORY OF LICENSE, SUBJECT TO THE CONDITIONS BELOW. FOR A LIST OF THE CURRENT SPECIES PLEASE CHECK THE WEBSITE www.naturebase.net, go to Keeping Reptiles as Pets.

A KEEPERS LICENSE DOES NOT AUTHORISE THE KEEPER TO TAKE ANY FAUNA FROM THE WILD.

1. The licensee shall comply with the provisions of the Wildlife Conservation act 1950, Wildlife Conservation Regulations 1970 and Wildlife Conservation (reptile and amphibian keeping) Regulations 2002 and any notices and schedules in force under this act and these regulations.

2. The licensee must comply with all relevant local authority by-laws.

3. Quarterly returns shall be submitted to this department so as to be received with fifteen (15) days of each quarterly period and shall list details of all fauna purchased, sold, born or died. Returns shall be marked to the attention of the Wildlife Licensing (pet, reptile and amphibian) Officer. If no transactions, births or deaths have occurred a return must still be submitted.

4. The licensee shall at all times provide adequate and appropriate care in accordance with animal care sheet specifications.

5. The licensee shall ensure that the fauna are kept under secure (locked for Pythons and category 5 species) confinement at all times in accordance with animal care sheet specifications.

6. The fauna shall not be kept in the bedrooms or bathrooms of the licensee’s dwelling premises.

7. The fauna shall not be displayed to the general public.

8. No fauna kept under the provisions of this license is to be released into the wild.

9. No species or subspecies kept under the provisions of the licence is to be allowed to interbreed under any circumstances.

10. If any animal under the licence dies or is lost, the licensee must inform the wildlife licensing officer in writing of the species type/name, identification number, time, date and cause of death or loss within 72 hours. Dead fauna are to be individually tagged or labelled with identification &/or specimen number and preserved in alcohol or frozen as soon as possible after death. They are to be kept by the licensee until advised by the department of disposal options.

11. No fauna held under the licence is to be disposed of until at least three (3) months from the date of purchase or the birth of the fauna.

12. All fauna held under the licence shall only be held at the premises listed on the licence, except when being treated by a registered veterinary surgeon, or enroute to a licensed reptile and amphibian dealer, a licensed reptile and amphibian farmer, or as otherwise authorised by the executive director.

13. No live vertebrate animals are to be used as food for pet herpetofauna held under the licence.

14. Not withstanding condition 12, any fauna held under the licence shall be disposed of only to a licensed reptile and amphibian dealer.

15. The licensee may sell to a licensed dealer no more than one clutch bred from any species on this licence in any calendar year. If the licensee wishes to sell more than one clutch from any species in any calendar year, he/she must first apply for and obtain a licence to farm reptiles and amphibians as pets.

16. The licensee shall record details (in duplicate) of all transactions, births, deaths or escapes of all fauna held on the licence on the approved record sheet as they occur, and shall submit one copy as per condition 3 and retain the duplicate, and make the duplicate available to a wildlife officer on demand.

17. Licensees are to comply with any lawful instructions made by a wildlife officer at all times.

18. The licensee must, when requested to do so by an authorised wildlife officer, allow the wildlife officer to inspect any pet herpetofauna to which this licence relates, and to inspect the property where the herpetofauna is kept.