• Specific Year
    Any

PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT 1986 - SECT 26 Offences relating to scientific procedures carried out at scientific premises

PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT 1986 - SECT 26

Offences relating to scientific procedures carried out at scientific premises

S. 26(1) amended by No. 65/2007 s. 97.

    (1)     A person who occupies a scientific premises must not cause or allow scientific procedures to be carried out on those premises unless that person holds a scientific procedures premises licence for that premises that authorises the carrying out of those procedures.

Penalty:     120 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months, in the case of a natural person.

600 penalty units, in the case of a body corporate.

S. 26(2) amended by Nos 65/2007 s. 97, 60/2012 s. 43(1).

    (2)     A person who occupies a premises at which scientific procedures are carried out or are proposed to be carried out must nominate a natural person to be responsible for any procedures carried out on those premises.

Penalty:     120 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months, in the case of a natural person.

600 penalty units, in the case of a body corporate.

S. 26(3) amended by Nos 65/2007 s. 97, 60/2012 s. 43(2).

    (3)     A person nominated under subsection (2) must not cause or allow scientific procedures to be carried out at the premises for which he or she has been nominated unless the nominated person reasonably believes that the occupier of the premises is the holder of a scientific procedures premises licence for that premises that authorises the carrying out of those procedures.

Penalty:     120 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months.

S. 26(4) amended by No. 65/2007 s. 97.

    (4)     A person must not carry out a scientific procedure at a scientific premises unless the person carrying out the procedure reasonably believes that the occupier of the premises is the holder of a scientific procedures premises licence for that premises that authorises the carrying out of those procedures.

Penalty:     120 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months, in the case of a natural person.

600 penalty units, in the case of a body corporate.

S. 27 amended by No. 77/1995 s. 27, substituted by No. 103/2003 s. 37.