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Animal Welfare Act 1999

Use of animals in research, testing, and teaching - Reviews of code holders and animal ethics committees

105: Independent reviews

You could also call this:

"Regular checks to ensure animal welfare codes are being followed"

You need to have an independent review of each code holder and each animal ethics committee. This review must be done in a certain way. You have to follow the rules in this section when you do the review.

If you are a new code holder, you will have an independent review within two years after your code is approved and published in the Gazette. This applies if you are a new code holder or if you have not been a code holder in the last two years. The review will check how you are doing.

If you want to keep being a code holder, you will need to have another independent review before your current approval runs out. This is so you can keep following the code of ethical conduct. You must complete the review before the end of your current approval period.

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Part 6Use of animals in research, testing, and teaching
Reviews of code holders and animal ethics committees

105Independent reviews

  1. An independent review of each code holder and of each animal ethics committee established and maintained by the code holder must be undertaken in accordance with this section.

  2. Where the code holder in respect of a code of ethical conduct is—

  3. a person who, on the approval of that code, became a code holder for the first time; or
    1. a person who, on the approval of that code, was a person who had not, at any time in the period of 2 years immediately preceding the date of that approval, been a code holder,—
        1. an independent review must take place within 2 years after the date on which notice of that approval was published in the Gazette.

      1. Where a code holder (including a code holder to whom subsection (2) applies) applies for the approval of a code of ethical conduct for a second or subsequent period, an independent review must have been completed before the period of the current approval has expired.