Animal Research Amendment Act 1997 Proclamation re commencement (1999-337) [GG No 79 of 9.7.1999, p 4813] (NSW)

1999 No 337

New South Wales

ANIMAL RESEARCH AMENDMENT ACT 1997 No 25—

PROCLAMATION

(L.S.) GORDON SAMUELS, Governor.

I, the Honourable Gordon Samuels AC, Governor of the State of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 2 of the Animal Research Amendment Act 1997, do, by this my Proclamation, appoint 12 July 1999 as the day on which the uncommenced provisions of that Act commence.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 7th day of July 1999.

By His Excellency’s Command,

RICHARD AMERY, M.P.,
Minister for Agriculture.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The object of this Proclamation is to commence the uncommenced provisions of the Animal Research Amendment Act 1997. Those provisions make amendments to the Animal Research Act 1985 that deal with the following:

(a)	replacing the requirement for an independent animal researcher to obtain an animal research licence with a requirement to obtain an animal research authority,
(b)	issuing of animal research authorities to independent animal researchers by either the Director-General of Agriculture or accredited research establishments,
(c)	requiring an animal supplier to have an animal care and ethics committee,
(d)	creating an offence of an unauthorised person keeping animals with the intention of using them in connection with animal research,
(e)	requiring particulars of lethality tests to be kept by animal researchers, and allowing those particulars to be recorded and published by the Animal Research Review Panel,
(f)	making other amendments of a minor or consequential nature.

The Animal Research Amendment Act 1997 also makes consequential amendments to the

Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1979.

BY AUTHORITY

Published in Gazette No 79 of 9 July 1999, page 4813