Animal Welfare (General) Regulations (No. 2) 2023 (Tas)

Animal Welfare (General) Regulations (No. 2) 2023

I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Animal Welfare Act 1993 .

11 July 2023

B. BAKER

Governor

By Her Excellency's Command,

JO PALMER

Minister for Primary Industries and Water

PART 1 - Preliminary

1. Short title These regulations may be cited as the Animal Welfare (General) Regulations (No. 2) 2023 .

2. Commencement These regulations take effect on the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette.

3. Interpretation In these regulations – Act means the Animal Welfare Act 1993 ; year means a calendar year.

4. Prescribed animal For paragraph (b) of the definition of animal in section 3 of the Act, a creature of the class Cephalopoda is prescribed as an animal for the purposes of Part 4 of the Act.

5. Prescribed Code of Practice for rodeos For the purposes of section 11A(1)(a) of the Act, the prescribed Code of Practice for rodeos is the National Consultative Committee on Animal Welfare (NCCAW) Standards for the Care and Treatment of Rodeo Livestock published by the Commonwealth Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry on 10 June 2006, as amended or substituted from time to time.

PART 2 - Acts and procedures

6. Prescribed acts constituting cruelty to animals (1) In this regulation – docking means removal, by surgical or non-surgical means; dog means an animal of the species Canis familiaris; therapeutic purposes means the purposes of treating a disease or medical condition. (2) For the purposes of section 8(2)(k) of the Act, the following are prescribed acts: (a) the strangling of an animal with a device or by other means; (b) the docking of all, or part, of the tail of a dog; (c) causing or permitting the docking of all, or part, of the tail of a dog. (3) Subregulation (2)(b) does not apply to a veterinary surgeon who, using anaesthesia in respect of a dog, docks all, or part, of the tail of the dog for therapeutic purposes. (4) Subregulation (2)(c) does not apply to a person who causes or permits a veterinary surgeon to, using anaesthesia in respect of a dog, dock all, or part, of the tail of the dog for therapeutic purposes.