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Animal Welfare Act 1999

Provisions relating to administration - Approved organisations, inspectors, and auxiliary officers

123B: Audits

You could also call this:

"Checks on animal welfare organisations to ensure they follow the rules"

The Director-General must set terms of reference for audits of approved organisations. You need to know that audits include examinations, investigations, and reviews. Auditors check an organisation's past, present, and likely future position.

The auditors check if an organisation can meet the criteria set out in section 122(1). They also check if the organisation and its inspectors and auxiliary officers comply with performance and technical standards. You will be checked to see if you comply with any memorandum of understanding between your organisation and the Ministry.

The auditors check how inspectors and auxiliary officers use their powers and carry out their duties. They also check if an organisation complies with animal welfare law and any directions from the Director-General under section 126. Any inspector, auxiliary officer, or employee of an organisation can be audited.

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Part 7Provisions relating to administration
Approved organisations, inspectors, and auxiliary officers

123BAudits

  1. The Director-General must set terms of reference for audits of approved organisations.

  2. Audits include examinations, investigations, and reviews.

  3. Auditors conduct audits as to the previous and current positions, and as to the likely future position, of—

  4. an organisation’s ability to meet the criteria set out in section 122(1):
    1. compliance by an organisation and its inspectors and auxiliary officers with any relevant performance and technical standards for inspectors and auxiliary officers:
      1. an organisation's compliance with any memorandum of understanding established between the organisation and the Ministry:
        1. the exercise of any power, and the carrying out of any functions or duties, by any inspector or auxiliary officer of an organisation:
          1. an organisation's compliance with animal welfare law:
            1. compliance by an organisation and its inspectors and auxiliary officers with any direction issued by the Director-General under section 126:
              1. any other class or description of audit necessary to audit an organisation’s work or status as an approved organisation under this Act.

                1. Any inspector, auxiliary officer, or employee of an organisation, and any other inspector or auxiliary officer, may be the subject of an audit.

                Notes
                • Section 123B: inserted, on , by section 45 of the Animal Welfare Amendment Act (No 2) 2015 (2015 No 49).