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Animal Welfare Act 1999

Provisions relating to administration - Disposal of animals in custody of approved organisations

142: Obligation to maintain register

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"Keep a record of what happens to animals in your care"

If you are part of an approved organisation, you must keep a record of what happens to animals in your care. You need to write down the number and type of animals that are sold, given a new home, put down, or disposed of in some other way under section 141. For each animal, you must include the date you got the animal and the date you disposed of it, as well as what happened to the animal, such as being sold or given a new home.

You must keep these records for at least one year after you got the animal. This means you will have a register that shows what happened to each animal that was in your care. You can find more information about how this works under section 141.

You have to keep these records so that you can keep track of what happens to the animals in your care.

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Part 7Provisions relating to administration
Disposal of animals in custody of approved organisations

142Obligation to maintain register

  1. An approved organisation must record in a register the numbers and types of animals sold, re-homed, destroyed, or otherwise disposed of under section 141, and include in that register, in relation to each animal,—

  2. particulars of the date when custody of the animal was obtained and of the date when the animal was disposed of; and
    1. a record of whether the animal was sold, re-homed, destroyed, or otherwise disposed of.

      1. The records in relation to each animal must be kept for at least 1 year after the date on which the approved organisation obtained custody of the animal.