New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

NON-INDIGENOUS ANIMALS REGULATION 2006 - REG 18

18 Licences and renewals: matters prescribed under section 15 (2) (g)

(1) In considering whether to grant a licence or renewal, the Director-General must have regard to the following matters:

(a) the security and care required for the animals that are to be kept or are kept under the licence,

(b) whether the number of licences in force that relate to certain species of animals should be restricted and, if it should be restricted, whether the grant of the licence or its renewal would violate that restriction,

(c) in the case of a licence for an agent of a zoo to keep a category 3a animal, whether there is a written agreement between the agent and the institution that transfers the animal to the agent and whether the agreement contains a requirement that the agent must transfer the animal back to the institution on demand,

(d) in the case of a licence or renewal of a licence to keep an animal of the Order Primates, or Funambulus pennantii (commonly known as the Northern Palm-squirrel):

(i) the life expectancy of the animal, and

(ii) the specialised care requirements of the animal, and

(iii) the general welfare of the animal.

(2) In considering whether to grant a renewal of a licence, the Director-General must also have regard to whether the licensee has had an animal of the species to which the application relates in the licensee’s keeping at any time during the immediately preceding 12 months.