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Animal Welfare Act 1999

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

95: Application for amendment, suspension, or revocation of code of ethical conduct

You could also call this:

"Asking to change or cancel animal care rules"

If you are in charge of a code of ethical conduct, you can ask the Director-General to change, stop, or cancel it. You must write to the Director-General and explain why you want to make these changes. The Director-General will look at your request and may ask for comments from the National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee.

The Director-General must talk to the Committee about your request to change the code of ethical conduct. You can make small changes to the code without asking the Director-General, but these changes must not affect the main purpose of the code. These small changes are called minor amendments.

If you make minor amendments to the code, you must tell the Director-General in writing what you have changed. You must do this by 31 March the following year, after you have made the changes.

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

95Application for amendment, suspension, or revocation of code of ethical conduct

  1. Every code holder may apply to the Director-General for his or her approval to the amendment, suspension, or revocation of the approval of the code of ethical conduct in respect of which the code holder holds the Director-General's approval.

  2. Every such application must be in writing and must state the reason why the code of ethical conduct should be amended, suspended, or revoked.

  3. The Director-General must refer to the National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee for its comments every application made under subsection (1) for his or her approval to the amendment of a code of ethical conduct and must consult with that Committee with regard to every such application.

  4. Despite subsections (1) to (3), nothing in this section prevents a code holder from making minor amendments to a code of ethical conduct (being minor amendments that would not materially affect the purposes of the code) without the approval of the Director-General.

  5. Where, in any year ending with 31 December, a code holder makes minor amendments to a code of ethical conduct, that code holder must, as soon as practicable after the end of that year but not later than 31 March in the succeeding year, give to the Director-General in writing particulars of those minor amendments.