Exhibited Animals Protection Amendment Act 1996 Proclamation re commencement (2001-8) [GG No 20 of 19.1.2001, p 129] (NSW)

2001 No 8

Exhibited Animals Protection New South Wales

Amendment Act 1996 No 11—Proclamation

GORDON SAMUELS, Governor I, the Honourable Gordon Samuels AC, CVO, Governor of the State of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 2 of the Exhibited Animals Protection Amendment Act 1996, do, by this my Proclamation, appoint 2 February 2001 as the day on which the uncommenced provisions of that Act commence.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 10th day of January 2001.

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 Schedule 1 [1]–[3] of the Exhibited Animals

Protection Amendment Act 1996 (the Act). The amendments:

(a)	remove an exemption so that zoological parks established, maintained and controlled by the Zoological Parks Board of New South Wales will be required to obtain an animal display establishment licence, and
(b)	omit a power to make regulations to apply standards prescribed under section 14 of the Exhibited Animals Protection Act 1986 to such zoological parks, and
(c)	commence a formal provision to give effect to a savings and transitional schedule to the Act.

This proclamation is made under section 2 of the Act.

BY AUTHORITY

Published in Gazette No 20 of 19 January 2001, page 129