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Animal Welfare Act 1999

Provisions relating to administration - Compliance notices

156A: Scope

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"What the Animal Welfare Act Covers"

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An inspector can give you a compliance notice. This notice can tell you to stop doing something that might break the Animal Welfare Act. It can also tell you to do something to follow the Act.

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Part 7Provisions relating to administration
Compliance notices

156AScope

  1. An inspector may issue a compliance notice to a person.

  2. A compliance notice may—

  3. require the person to cease doing something that the inspector has good cause to suspect contravenes or is likely to contravene this Act or any regulations made under it; or
    1. prohibit the person from starting something that the inspector has good cause to suspect contravenes or is likely to contravene this Act or any regulations made under it; or
      1. prohibit the person from doing something again that the inspector has good cause to suspect contravenes or is likely to contravene this Act or any regulations made under it; or
        1. prohibit the person from having something done on the person's behalf that the inspector has good cause to suspect contravenes or is likely to contravene this Act or any regulations made under it; or
          1. prohibit the person from having something done on the person's behalf again that the inspector has good cause to suspect contravenes or is likely to contravene this Act or any regulations made under it; or
            1. require the person to do something that the inspector reasonably believes is necessary to ensure that the person complies with this Act or any regulations made under it.

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              Notes
              • Section 156A: inserted, on , by section 55 of the Animal Welfare Amendment Act (No 2) 2015 (2015 No 49).