New South Wales Consolidated Acts

NON-INDIGENOUS ANIMALS ACT 1987 - SECT 7

7 The advisory committee

(1) There is constituted by this Act a Non-Indigenous Animals Advisory Committee.

(2) The advisory committee:

(a) shall have and may exercise the functions conferred or imposed on it by or under this Act or any other law, and

(b) shall, in the exercise of its functions (except in relation to the contents of a report or a recommendation made by it to the Minister), be subject to the control and direction of the Minister.

(3) The advisory committee shall consist of 11 members who shall be appointed by the Minister.

(4) Of the members:

(a) two shall be officers or temporary employees of the Department of Agriculture,

(b) one shall be a person employed in the National Parks and Wildlife Service nominated by the Minister for Planning and Environment,

(c) one shall be a person nominated by the Zoological Parks Board of New South Wales,

(d) one shall be a person employed in the Australian Museum, nominated by the Minister for Heritage,

(e) one shall be a director of a board nominated by the State Management Council of Livestock Health and Pest Authorities constituted under the Rural Lands Protection Act 1998 ,

(f) one shall be a person selected by the Minister from 3 nominees of the New South Wales Association of Fauna and Marine Parks,

(g) one shall be a person having the prescribed qualifications who is interested in the keeping of private collections of animals (other than birds),

(h) one shall be a nominee of one or more prescribed organisations interested in the keeping of birds in aviaries,

(i) one shall be a nominee of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and

(j) one shall be a member of the NSW Farmers’ Association nominated by that Association.

(5) In so far as an appointment under this section requires a person or body to nominate one or more persons for the purposes of subsection (4), the Minister may, in default by any such person or body in furnishing any or a sufficient number of nominees when required by the Minister to do so, appoint such person as the Minister considers qualified to represent the person or body concerned.

(6) Schedule 1 has effect with respect to the members of the advisory committee.

(7) Schedule 2 has effect with respect to the procedure of the advisory committee.