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Animal Welfare Act 1999

Use of animals in research, testing, and teaching - Codes of ethical conduct

93: Approval to be personal to code holder

You could also call this:

"Only the person approved can use an animal welfare code, not someone else, unless given permission."

If you have a code of ethical conduct approved, it belongs to you and you can't give it to someone else without the Director-General's consent. You can't pass it on to another person automatically, it only belongs to you. If you sell your business or give away control of it, you will lose your approved code of ethical conduct unless the Director-General agrees to the sale or transfer.

When you assign your business assets or transfer shares that give someone else control, it is like giving up your approved code of ethical conduct. This happens unless the Director-General says it is okay. You need the Director-General's consent to keep your approved code of ethical conduct in these situations.

If someone else gets control of your business, your approved code of ethical conduct will be revoked. This means it will no longer be valid, unless the Director-General consents to the change. The Director-General must agree for your approved code of ethical conduct to remain valid after a business transfer.

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Part 6Use of animals in research, testing, and teaching
Codes of ethical conduct

93Approval to be personal to code holder

  1. An approval of a code of ethical conduct is personal to the code holder and, except with the consent of the Director-General, is not transferable.

  2. An approval of a code of ethical conduct does not vest by operation of law in any person other than the code holder.

  3. For the purposes of subsection (1), where—

  4. a code holder assigns the assets and goodwill of the code holder's business to another person; or
    1. a transfer of all or some of the share capital of the code holder has the effect of transferring control of the code holder's business to another person,—
        1. every such assignment or transfer has the effect of revoking the approval of the code of ethical conduct held by the code holder unless that assignment or transfer is effected with the consent of the Director-General.