Animal Welfare Act 1999

Care of animals

9: Purpose

You could also call this:

"Looking after animals' needs and keeping them safe and healthy is the purpose."

The purpose of this part of the law is to ensure that you attend properly to the welfare of animals if you own them or are in charge of them. You must take all reasonable steps to meet the physical, health, and behavioural needs of animals based on good practice and scientific knowledge. You must also ensure that ill or injured animals receive treatment to alleviate any unreasonable or unnecessary pain or distress they are suffering.

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Part 1Care of animals

9Purpose

  1. The purpose of this Part is to ensure that owners of animals and persons in charge of animals attend properly to the welfare of those animals.

  2. This Part accordingly—

  3. requires owners of animals, and persons in charge of animals, to take all reasonable steps to ensure that the physical, health, and behavioural needs of the animals are met in accordance with both—
    1. good practice; and
      1. scientific knowledge; and
      2. requires owners of ill or injured animals, and persons in charge of such animals, to ensure that the animals receive treatment that alleviates any unreasonable or unnecessary pain or distress from which the animals are suffering; and
        1. imposes restrictions on the carrying out of surgical procedures on animals; and
          1. contemplates that regulations will prohibit or impose requirements on the surgical or painful procedures that may be performed on animals; and
            1. contemplates that regulations will prescribe the persons or classes of persons who may perform surgical or painful procedures on animals; and
              1. specifies certain minimum conditions that must be observed in relation to the transportation of animals.
                Notes
                • Section 9(2)(b): amended, on , by section 11(1) of the Animal Welfare Amendment Act (No 2) 2015 (2015 No 49).
                • Section 9(2)(d): replaced, on , by section 11(2) of the Animal Welfare Amendment Act (No 2) 2015 (2015 No 49).
                • Section 9(2)(e): replaced, on , by section 11(2) of the Animal Welfare Amendment Act (No 2) 2015 (2015 No 49).