New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

ANIMAL RESEARCH REGULATION 2005 - REG 3

3 Definitions

(1) In this Regulation:
"approved" means approved for the time being by the Director-General.
"Director-General" means the Director-General of the Department of Primary Industries.
"ethics committee" means an animal care and ethics committee.
"ethics subcommittee" means an animal care and ethics subcommittee.
"impounding authority" means:

(a) an impounding authority within the meaning of the Impounding Act 1993 , or

(b) a pound operator within the meaning of the Companion Animals Act 1998 .

"Panel" means the Animal Research Review Panel constituted by the Act.
"prescribed offence" means:

(a) an offence under the Act, the Exhibited Animals Protection Act 1986 , the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1979 , the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 or the Non-Indigenous Animals Act 1987 (or under the regulations in force under any of those Acts), or

(b) an offence committed in New South Wales for which the penalty (or maximum penalty) is imprisonment for 2 years or more, or

(c) an offence committed outside of New South Wales that, if committed in New South Wales, would have been an offence referred to in paragraph (a) of this definition, or

(d) an offence committed outside of New South Wales that, if committed in New South Wales, would have been an offence for which the penalty (or maximum penalty) is imprisonment for 2 years or more.

"school" means a government school or non-government school within the meaning of the Education Act 1990 .
"school-based establishment" means a corporation that carries on, or proposes to carry on, the business of animal research solely to allow animal research to be carried out at a school.
"the Act" means the Animal Research Act 1985 .
"the Australian Code" means the document entitled Australian code of practice for the care and use of animals for scientific purposes and published by the Australian Government.

(2) Words and expressions that are defined in the Australian Code have the same meanings in this Regulation as they have in that Code.