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New Zealand's new Animal Welfare Act

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2023

Extract

On 1 January 2000, New Zealand's new animal welfare legislation - the Animal Welfare Act 1999 - came into force. The Act itself, with its accompanying schedules, is 121 pages of, to the non-legal eye, somewhat dense and demanding text. Fortunately, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has published a useful accompanying guide (see below for details) which helps to introduce the Act and explain its rationale, scope and layout. The Act, so the guide tells us, ‘is a clear statement to New Zealanders and the rest of the world that animals in New Zealand have a right to expect proper and sufficient care’.

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© 2000 Universities Federation for Animal Welfare

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