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ANIMAL WELFARE ACT 2002 - SECT 94

94 .         Regulations

        (1)         The Governor may make regulations prescribing all matters that are permitted to be prescribed, or that are necessary or convenient to be prescribed to give effect to the purposes of this Act.

        (2)         Without limiting subsection (1) regulations made under this section may —

            (a)         provide that a contravention of a regulation is an offence and provide a penalty not exceeding $20 000;

            (b)         exempt a specified person, or specified class of persons, from the requirements of all or any of the provisions of this Act;

            (c)         provide for all or any of the provisions of this Act not to apply in relation to a specified animal or a specified class of animals;

            (d)         adopt codes of practice relating to the use, care, welfare, safety or health of animals either —

                  (i)         as modified by the regulations;

                  (ii)         as they exist at a particular date; or

                  (iii)         as they are amended from time to time;

                and

            (e)         prescribe the matters in respect of which fees are payable under this Act, the amount of those fees, and the persons who are to pay them.

[Part 7 omitted under the  Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(4)(e) and (f).]



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