New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ANIMAL RESEARCH ACT 1985 - SECT 20

20 Determination of applications

(1) After considering the Panel’s report on an application, the Director-General shall determine the application:

(a) by accrediting the applicant as a research establishment, either unconditionally or subject to conditions, or

(b) by refusing to accredit the applicant as a research establishment.

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Director-General shall not accredit an applicant as a research establishment:

(a) if the applicant does not have a duly constituted animal care and ethics committee, or

(b) if the applicant is a disqualified corporation.

(3) Where the Director-General refuses to accredit an applicant as a research establishment, the Director-General shall, as soon as practicable after so refusing, cause notice of the refusal, and of the reasons for the refusal, to be served on the applicant.

(4) If, at the expiration of 90 days after an application has been made, the Director-General has failed to determine the application, the Director-General is, for the purposes only of any application for review by the Administrative Decisions Tribunal, taken to have refused to accredit the applicant as a research establishment.

(5) The Director-General shall issue a certificate of accreditation to each corporation that the Director-General accredits as a research establishment.

(6) A certificate of accreditation in respect of an accredited research establishment shall:

(a) be in or to the effect of the approved form,

(b) designate the land in or on which it is intended that the business of animal research will be carried on by the establishment, as identified in the application pursuant to which the establishment has been accredited,

(c) specify any condition to which the accreditation is subject, and

(d) specify the date on which the accreditation was granted.