New South Wales Consolidated Acts

NON-INDIGENOUS ANIMALS ACT 1987 - SECT 19

19 Permits

(1) The Director-General may, on application by a licensee made as prescribed and accompanied by the prescribed fee, grant a permit authorising:

(a) the importation of an animal for keeping in the licensed accommodation,

(b) the movement or transportation of an animal from that licensee’s licensed accommodation to another licensee’s licensed accommodation, or

(c) the transportation of an animal for any purpose approved by the Director-General.

(2) The Director-General shall not refuse to grant a permit authorising the importation of an animal for keeping in the licensed accommodation unless the animal:

(a) poses such a threat of disease affecting persons, domestic animals (including livestock) or native fauna, or

(b) poses such a threat to agriculture or the environment,

that the importation of the animal represents an unacceptable risk.

(3) A permit shall be subject to any conditions specified in it.

(4) The conditions to which the permit is subject shall be conditions designed to:

(a) prevent or minimise the threat of any disease of the kind described in subsection (2) (a),

(b) prevent or minimise any threat to agriculture or the environment, or

(c) ensure the secure custody of the animal:

(i) during movement or transportation or in any temporary holding area during the journey, and

(ii) at its intended destination,

or both.

(5) A permit may authorise the importation, movement or transportation of animals on one or more specified occasions or, if the permit so provides, from time to time.

(6) The Director-General may, by notice in writing served on the holder of a permit, cancel the permit if any conditions of the permit are not being complied with.

(7) The notice:

(a) shall specify the reason for the cancellation, and

(b) shall, subject to section 20, take effect when it is served.