Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

ANIMAL WELFARE ACT 1992 - SECT 49B

    (1)     An interstate researcher who has complied with section 49A may use or breed animals in the ACT in the same way, to the same extent and for the same purposes as the researcher is permitted to use or breed animals in the State where the researcher's interstate research authorisation was granted.

    (2)     Subsection (1)—

        (a)     does not apply to a researcher whose interstate research authorisation is suspended; and

        (b)     ceases to apply to a researcher whose interstate research authorisation expires or is cancelled or revoked.

    (3)     The authority may decide to end the application of subsection (1) to a researcher if satisfied on reasonable grounds that the researcher—

        (a)     has contravened this Act; or

        (b)     has contravened, in the ACT, an approved code of practice or a protocol or condition to which the researcher's interstate research authorisation is subject; or

        (c)     has failed to comply, in the ACT, with the proposals for carrying out the researcher's activities set out in a submission on which the grant of the authorisation is based.

    (4)     When considering whether to make a decision under subsection (3) about an interstate researcher, the authority is not required to give the researcher an opportunity to make representations if satisfied that the public interest or the welfare of any animal requires that the decision be made immediately.

    (5)     The authority may decide that subsection (1) should again apply to a researcher to whom the subsection has ceased to apply because of a decision under subsection (3).

    (6)     Subsection (1)—

        (a)     ceases to apply to a researcher about whom the authority has made a decision under subsection (3); and

        (b)     again applies to a researcher about whom the authority has made a decision under subsection (5).