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Animal Welfare Act 1999

Provisions relating to administration - Compliance notices

156E: Change or cancellation

You could also call this:

"Asking to change or cancel an animal welfare notice"

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You can ask the Director-General to change or cancel a compliance notice. The Director-General must think about your request as soon as possible, within 10 working days. They consider why the notice was given and how a change might affect that reason. You can ask the Director-General to change or cancel a notice and they might agree. They will tell you what they decide in writing. The Director-General can also cancel a notice if they think it is no longer needed. If you ask to change or cancel a notice, you still have to follow the notice until it is changed or cancelled. The Director-General will tell you in writing if they cancel the notice.

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Part 7Provisions relating to administration
Compliance notices

156EChange or cancellation

  1. A compliance notice may be changed or cancelled under subsection (2) or cancelled under subsection (3) by the Director-General.

  2. If the Director-General receives a written application from the person to whom the notice was issued to change or cancel the notice, the Director-General—

  3. must consider the application as soon as practicable and in any event within 10 working days after the date on which the application is received, having regard to—
    1. the purpose for which the notice was issued; and
      1. the effect of a change or cancellation on the purpose; and
        1. any other matter he or she thinks fit:
        2. may confirm, change, or cancel the notice:
          1. must give the person to whom the notice was issued written notice of the confirmation, change, or cancellation.

            1. The Director-General—

            2. may cancel the notice if he or she considers that the notice is no longer required; and
              1. must give the person to whom the notice was issued written notice of the cancellation.

                1. An application to change or cancel a compliance notice does not operate as a stay of the notice.

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