PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT 1979 - SECT 34A
Guidelines relating to welfare of farm or companion animals
PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT 1979 - SECT 34A
Guidelines relating to welfare of farm or companion animals
34A Guidelines relating to welfare of farm or companion animals
(1) The
regulations may prescribe guidelines, or may adopt a document in the nature of
guidelines or a code of practice as guidelines, relating to the welfare of
species of farm or companion animals.
(2) Before any regulations are made as
referred to in subsection (1), the Animal Welfare Advisory Council, and
representatives of any relevant livestock industry, are to be given an
opportunity to review and comment on the provisions of the proposed regulation
relating to the welfare of species of farm or companion animals.
(3)
Compliance, or failure to comply, with any guidelines prescribed or adopted by
the regulations for the purposes of subsection (1) is admissible in evidence
in proceedings under this Act of compliance, or failure to comply, with this
Act or the regulations.
(4) A document adopted as referred to in subsection
(1) may be adopted wholly or in part, with or without modification and as in
force at a particular time or as in force from time to time.
