New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

ANIMAL RESEARCH REGULATION 1995 - REG 26

26 Records to be kept

(1) This clause applies to an accredited research establishment (other than a school-based establishment) and to the holder of an animal research authority issued by an ethics committee appointed by the Director-General.

(2) A person to whom this clause applies must, by 30 September in each year, send a report to the Director-General on the person’s work and activities during the period of 12 months ending on 30 June in that year.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.

(3) The report must be in the approved form and must contain the following information for the period to which it relates:

(a) the number and kind of animals that have been allocated during that period to each project for which a proposal has been submitted,

(b) the number and kind of animals that have been allocated more than a year ago to each project for which a proposal has been submitted and that are still allocated to that project as at the end of that period,

(c) the objective of each project for which animal research has been carried out during that period,

(d) the techniques developed or adopted during that period to reduce the total amount of pain or stress caused to animals in research or to reduce the number of animals used, or both.

(4) In the case of an accredited research establishment, the report must also contain the following information:

(a) the number of meetings held by the ethics committee for the establishment,

(b) the number of proposals prepared by the establishment and approved by the ethics committee for the establishment,

(c) the number of ongoing proposals prepared by the establishment and reviewed and reapproved by the ethics committee for the establishment,

(d) the number of projects terminated before completion by the ethics committee for the establishment,

(e) the number of proposals revoked by the ethics committee for the establishment.