Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts(1) A person commits an offence if the person does something that communicates a disease or disease agent to an animal.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units, imprisonment for 6 months or both.
(2) This section does not apply if the person acts with the written approval of the director.
(3) In this section:
"disease agent "means any prion, virus, rickettsia, bacterium, protozoon, fungus, helminth, arthropod, insect or other pathogen or organism that can cause a disease in an animal.