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Animal Welfare Act 1999

Provisions relating to administration - Compliance notices

156D: Compliance

You could also call this:

"Following the rules: what to do if you get a compliance notice"

If you get a compliance notice, you must follow what it says. You have to do what the notice tells you to do within the time period stated in the notice, if it gives you a time limit. You also have to pay for the costs of following the notice, unless the notice says someone else will pay.

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Part 7Provisions relating to administration
Compliance notices

156DCompliance

  1. The person to whom a compliance notice is issued must—

  2. comply with the notice; and
    1. do so within the period stated in the notice, if a period is stated; and
      1. pay all the costs and expenses of complying with the notice, unless the order states otherwise.

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