No federal hunting act: nine Land regimes
The residual clause of Art. 15 B-VG leaves hunting to the nine Länder, each with its own act and ordinances.
Austria has no federal hunting act. The Federal Constitutional Act (Bundes-Verfassungsgesetz, B-VG) lays down a residual competence clause in Art. 15(1): «Soweit eine Angelegenheit nicht ausdrücklich durch die Bundesverfassung der Gesetzgebung oder auch der Vollziehung des Bundes übertragen ist, verbleibt sie im selbständigen Wirkungsbereich der Länder» — whatever the Constitution does not expressly assign to the federation remains within the Länder's own sphere. As hunting is not among the federal competences, it falls entirely to the nine Länder, each with its own hunting act (Landesjagdgesetz) and implementing ordinances. There is therefore no single Austrian licence, no national calendar and no national list of huntable species: what applies is the law of the Land where one hunts, published in the Federal Legal Information System (RIS).