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Animal Welfare Act 1999

Codes of welfare

74: Recommendation to Minister

You could also call this:

"The National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee tells the Minister if a new animal welfare rule is a good idea."

The National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee looks at a draft code of welfare and decides if they want to recommend it to the Minister. You can think of the Minister like a person in charge who makes big decisions. The Committee must make this decision as soon as they can after they stop taking submissions from people. The Committee's recommendation comes with a report that explains why they made their decision. The report also talks about any big disagreements people had with the code, and any disagreements the Committee members had with each other. The Committee sends a copy of their decision and report to the person who wrote the draft code.

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Part 5Codes of welfare

74Recommendation to Minister

  1. The National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee must, as soon as reasonably practicable after the closing date for the receipt of submissions in relation to a draft code of welfare, decide whether or not to recommend to the Minister the issue of the code.

  2. The Committee's recommendations must be accompanied by a report setting out—

  3. the reasons for the Committee's recommendation; and
    1. the nature of any significant differences of opinion about the code, or any provision of it, that have been shown by the submissions; and
      1. the nature of any significant differences of opinion about the code, or any provision of it, that have occurred within the Committee; and
        1. if applicable, those matters contained in, or related to, the code that the Committee considers should be dealt with by regulations under this Act.

          1. The National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee must send to the person who prepared the draft code a copy of its decision and a copy of the report made under subsection (2).

          Notes
          • Section 74(2)(c): amended, on , by section 32(1) of the Animal Welfare Amendment Act (No 2) 2015 (2015 No 49).
          • Section 74(2)(d): inserted, on , by section 32(2) of the Animal Welfare Amendment Act (No 2) 2015 (2015 No 49).