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Animal Welfare Act 1999

Provisions relating to administration - Compliance notices

156H: Effect of appeal

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You appeal a compliance notice under section 156F or 156G. The Director-General cannot cancel the notice while you are appealing. You must comply with the notice if that is what happens when you appeal.

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Part 7Provisions relating to administration
Compliance notices

156HEffect of appeal

  1. An appeal under section 156F or 156G has the following effects:

  2. the Director-General whose compliance notice is appealed against must not cancel the notice while the notice is the subject of an appeal or while the time for the person's appeal rights is running; and
    1. the person who appeals must comply with the notice if compliance is required as the result of the person exercising the person's appeal rights.

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