Animal Studies: News, Legislation, Standards and Codes

Australian Government. Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities.
The Australian Government's central piece of environmental legislation. Some of the provisions included are those for dealing with:
-listing of nationally threatened species and ecological communities, migratory species and marine species
-invasive species
-import and export of plants and animals (wildlife) and products derived from wildlife.

Australian Government. Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities.

Links to state legislation sites from Australian Government, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.

Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF)

List of CSIRO model codes available for download.

Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF)

The Animal Law Committee focuses on the laws that govern the legal status and treatment of animals in Australia.

State Government of Victoria. Department of Primary Industries
Links to various acts, regulations rand codes of practice relating to animal welfare in Victoria.

State Government of Victoria. Department of Primary Industries.
Links to relevant Act and Regulations, Governing Orders and Notices and Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals in Hunting .

State Government of Victoria. Department of Primary Industries.

Links to codes of practice for livestock and domestic animals and associated issues, including hunting, pet shops, rodeos, sale yards, scientific procedures, tethering animals, traps and transportation. From the Department of Primary Industries.

Authorised Version No. 003
S.R. No. 162/2008
Authorised Version incorporating amendments as at
1 January 2012

No. 46 of 1986
Version incorporating amendments as at 1 January 2012

S.R. No. 151/2005. Version No. 010
Version incorporating amendments as at 1 September 2009

Authorised Version No. 013
S.R. No. 29/2003
Authorised Version incorporating amendments as at
1 July 2011

Version No. 002
Regulations 2006
S.R. No. 143/2006
Version as at 11 April 2008

Version No. 003
S.R. No. 172/2006
Version incorporating amendments as at 1 July 2010

Links to some of the international agreements and organizations in which IFAW works.

NSW Department of Primary Industries and Animal Research
Links to legislation for UK, USA , Canada, NZ and Europe.

Sampling of key animal research regulations for countries around the world

An international agreement between governments. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival.

AustLII a joint facility of the UTS and UNSW Faculties of La and provides free internet access to Australasian legal materials.

Database of Australian Government legislation.
It includes:
- full text of all recent Australian Government legislation
- details of the lifecycle of individual laws and the relationships between them, and
-related documents.

State Government of Victoria.

The Department of Premier and Cabinet.

Government of Western Australia. Department of the Premier and Cabinet.

Government of South Australia. Attorney-General's Department

Northern Territory Government. Department of the Chief Minister

Queensland Government. Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel.

ACT Government.

New South Wales Government