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Tasmania's Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines

All states are working towards nationally consistent livestock welfare standards and guidelines.

Under this system:
  • standards are minimum acceptable practices that must be complied with; and
  • guidelines are accepted good industry practice that should be complied with.

Guidelines

In line with this system, the Tasmanian Animal Welfare Act provides for ‘animal welfare guidelines’ to be approved under the Act. They are advisory documents for the education and guidance of persons involved in the care and management of animals, promoting the adoption of good standards of husbandry. As official advisory documents they have been used by courts and others to help determine whether a particular action or inaction is a breach of the animal welfare legislation.

Standards

The Animal Welfare Act also has the capacity to prescribe “animal welfare standards” and these are mandatory – that is, anyone not complying is committing an offence. The appearance of both standards and guidelines in a document can create confusion about which parts are legally binding.

In Tasmania, legally binding animal welfare standards are those standards which are prescribed in the Animal Welfare Regulations 2008You are now leaving our site. DPIPWE is not responsible for the content of the web site to which you are going. The link does not constitute any form of endorsement.

Tasmanian Animal Welfare Guidelines
Sheep
Cattle
Deer
Goats
Pigs
Poultry
Horses
Emus
Breeding Dogs
Muttonbirds
Animals in Saleyards
Land Transport of Livestock
Transport of Livestock Across Bass Strait
Trade and Transport of Calves including Bobby Calves
Field Shooting of Brushtail Possums
Capture, Handling, Transport of Brushtail Possums
Wallaby Hunting
Duck Hunting
Hunting of Wild Fallow Deer in Tasmania New
Intensive Husbandry of Rabbits


Tasmania's Animal Welfare Guidelines:
      • Are approved by the Minister under the Animal Welfare Act
      • Are developed and reviewed by the industry, animal welfare groups and Government
      • Will include any nationally agreed guidelines for livestock welfare
      • Set out recommended guidelines for humane treatment of animals
      • Advise people with the care or charge of animals
      • Advise the courts.
Tasmania's Animal Welfare Standards:
      • Are prescribed in the Regulations
      • Are legally binding and enforceable
      • Non compliance is an offence
      • Will include nationally agreed livestock welfare standards (to be enforced in all jurisdictions).

Further Information

Contact: Animal Health and Welfare Branch
Animal Health and Welfare Branch
Biosecurity and Product Integrity Division
13 St Johns Avenue
NEW TOWN TAS 7008
Phone: 03 6233 6875
Email: AnimalWelfare.Enquiries@dpipwe.tas.gov.au


Tasmania Online


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