New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ANIMAL RESEARCH ACT 1985 - SECT 25A

25A Application to Director-General

(1) An individual may apply to the Director-General for an animal research authority.

(2) The application must:

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

(b) include such particulars of the research project in connection with which the animal research is to be carried out as may be prescribed by the regulations, and

(c) include particulars of any application made to an accredited research establishment for an animal research authority in respect of the same project and of any refusal of such an application, and

(d) identify the land in or on which the applicant intends to carry out the animal research, and

(e) include particulars of any cancellation of any animal research authority or animal supplier’s licence previously held by the applicant, and

(f) be accompanied by the fee prescribed by the regulations, and

(g) be lodged at the office of the Director-General.

(3) Subject to section 25, the Director-General is to determine an application:

(a) by issuing the authority to the applicant, or

(b) by refusing to issue an authority to the applicant.

(4) If the Director-General refuses to issue an authority, the Director-General is, as soon as practicable after so refusing, to cause notice of the refusal, and of the reasons for the refusal, to be served on the applicant for the authority.

(5) 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 to the Administrative Decisions Tribunal, taken to have refused to grant an authority to the applicant.