Animal Welfare Act 1999

Codes of welfare

69: Contents

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"What the rules are about to keep animals safe"

A code of welfare is a set of rules that helps keep animals safe. You can find rules about one or more things like a type of animal, or how animals are used for certain things. These rules can also be about places where animals are kept, types of entertainment that use animals, how animals are moved around, or how animals are cared for or treated by people.

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Part 5Codes of welfare

69Contents

  1. A code of welfare may relate to 1 or more of the following:

  2. a species of animal:
    1. animals used for purposes specified in the code:
      1. animal establishments of a kind specified in the code:
        1. types of entertainment specified in the code (being types of entertainment in which animals are used):
          1. the transport of animals:
            1. the procedures and equipment used in the management, care, or killing of animals or in the carrying out of surgical procedures on animals.