Animal Welfare Act 1993
43AABRegistering an interstate order
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43AAB Registering an interstate order
[Section 43AAB Inserted by No. 26 of 2008, s. 22, Applied:29 Jul 2008]
(1) The Minister is to establish and maintain a register of interstate orders.
(2) The Minister is to record in the register an interstate order, or a variation of a registered interstate order, if –
(a) requested to do so in writing by an interstate Minister; and
(b) provided with a copy, or an extract of the operative provisions, of the order or variation by the interstate Minister.
(3) As soon as practicable after the registration of an interstate order, or the variation of a registered interstate order, the Minister is to ensure that a notice is served on the person who is the subject of the order informing him or her that –
(a) the interstate order has been –
(i) recorded in the register under this section; or
(ii) varied and the variation of the order has been recorded in the register under this section; and
(b) the registration of the order, or variation of the order, does not take effect until 14 days after the day on which the notice is served on the person; and
(c) from the time the registration takes effect, a contravention of the order, or order as varied, in Tasmania is an offence under subsection (5) .
(4) The registration of an interstate order, or variation of a registered interstate order, takes effect 14 days after notice is served, in accordance with subsection (3) , on the person who is the subject of the order.
(5) A person who is the subject of a registered interstate order –
(a) must not contravene the order in Tasmania; or
(b) if the order has been varied and the variation registered, must not contravene the order as so varied in Tasmania.
Penalty: In the case of –