Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

ANIMAL WELFARE ACT 1992 - SECT 36

    (1)     A person employed or engaged by a licensee commits an offence if the person—

        (a)     conducts a program of research using or breeding animals and the person does not hold a research authorisation for the research; or

        (b)     conducts a program of teaching using or breeding animals and the person does not hold a teaching authorisation for the teaching.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units, imprisonment for 6 months or both.

    (2)     This section does not apply to—

        (a)     a person providing research or teaching assistance for the program; or

        (b)     an interstate researcher to whom section 49B (1) applies; or

        (c)     a person who uses or breeds an animal in the course of employment or engagement by an interstate researcher to whom section 49B (1) applies.