Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts The functions of the
Authority are —
(a) to
breed and rear laboratory animals, and to acquire specialised laboratory
animals, of a high quality and free of disease, which are required by
institutions and bodies for teaching, research, or diagnostic purposes or for
any purpose incidental thereto;
(b) to
supply such laboratory animals and tissue of such laboratory animals to those
institutions and bodies for payment;
(c) to
establish and maintain —
(i)
premises, equipment, and facilities; and
(ii)
a breeding stock of laboratory animals,
for the purposes
mentioned in paragraph (a);
(d) to
provide advice to the institutions and bodies mentioned in paragraph (a)
as to the housing, feeding, and care of, and the prevention of disease in,
laboratory animals;
(e) to
undertake and promote any research calculated to further the purposes
described in paragraph (a).