Animal Welfare Act 1993
8APest register
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8A Pest register
[Section 8A Inserted by No. 26 of 2008, s. 8, Applied:29 Jul 2008]
(1) The Minister is to establish and maintain a register of kinds or classes of animals which are pests.
(2) The Minister, after consulting the Advisory Committee, may enter in, or remove from, the register –
(a) the kind or class of an animal which is a pest; and
(b) injurious drugs, toxic substances and noxious substances that may be administered or otherwise used to control such an animal of such a kind or class.
(3) The register is to be in a form determined by the Minister.
(4) The Minister may correct the register or an entry in the register without a recommendation from the Advisory Committee.