Guns, Explosives and Weapons Control (Animal Management — Exemption) Order 2025

any fish;

any reptile;

any bird;

any amphibian; or

any mammal (other than man);“animal management purpose” means to exercise a power conferred by any of the following provisions, which involves the seizure, detention, impounding, examination or destruction of an animal:

section 11B(1)(a) or (2)(a) of the Wildlife Act 1965;

sections 19(2)(a)(i) or (b), 35(4)(a) or (b), 38(1)(a), (2) or (3), 39(2) or 51(1) of the Animals and Birds Act 1965;

section 13(3)(b) of the Infectious Diseases Act 1976;

rule 22(1) or (2) or 24(1) of the Animals and Birds (Licensing and Control of Cats and Dogs) Rules 2024 (G.N. No. S 683/2024);“authorised officer” means an employee of the National Parks Board who is —

appointed under section 3(2) of the Animals and Birds Act 1965 as an authorised officer; or

appointed under section 4(2) of the Wildlife Act 1965 as an authorised officer;“defined weapon” means —

a blow gun or blow pipe, being a hollow tube or similar device out of which an arrow or a dart or hard pellet or projectile is shot by use of breath expelled from the mouth; or

a dart designed to be shot out of a blow gun or blow pipe by use of breath expelled from the mouth.

the Director‑General, Animal Health and Welfare appointed under section 3(1) of the Animals and Birds Act 1965;

the Director‑General, Wildlife Management appointed under section 4(1) of the Wildlife Act 1965;

the Director-General of Health within the meaning given by section 2 of the Infectious Diseases Act 1976;

an authorised officer with authority to exercise any power conferred by or under the Animals and Birds Act 1965, the Wildlife Act 1965 or the Animals and Birds (Licensing and Control of Cats and Dogs) Rules 2024, for an animal management purpose.

to any place in Singapore on a journey wholly within Singapore; and

in a vehicle by road or a vessel by water, or both, which is driven, ridden or piloted (as the case may be) by the individual,for and in the exercise or discharge at that place of the individual’s powers or duties under written law for an animal management purpose, including sedating an animal preparatory to, or consequential on, carrying out that animal management purpose.