sec.26Chief executive may make guidelines

sec.26 Chief executive may make guidelines

The chief executive may make guidelines about— matters relating to the administration of this Act; or complying with other requirements imposed under this Act. Without limiting subsection (1) , a guideline may be about the following matters— the operation of provisions of this Act about monitoring and enforcement of compliance with this Act; ways in which exhibited animals may be exhibited or dealt with, including, for example, acceptable ways of ensuring an animal’s enclosure appropriately provides for the animal’s normal behaviours; the type of information the chief executive may consider relevant in a management plan for managing the relevant risks and relevant adverse effects associated with exhibiting or dealing with an exhibited animal. Before making a guideline, the chief executive must take reasonable steps to allow entities the chief executive considers may have an interest in the proposed guideline to give the chief executive written submissions about it. A failure to take reasonable steps to allow an entity to give the chief executive written submissions about a proposed guideline under subsection (3) does not affect the validity of the guideline. (sec.26-ssec.1) The chief executive may make guidelines about— matters relating to the administration of this Act; or complying with other requirements imposed under this Act. (sec.26-ssec.2) Without limiting subsection (1) , a guideline may be about the following matters— the operation of provisions of this Act about monitoring and enforcement of compliance with this Act; ways in which exhibited animals may be exhibited or dealt with, including, for example, acceptable ways of ensuring an animal’s enclosure appropriately provides for the animal’s normal behaviours; the type of information the chief executive may consider relevant in a management plan for managing the relevant risks and relevant adverse effects associated with exhibiting or dealing with an exhibited animal. (sec.26-ssec.3) Before making a guideline, the chief executive must take reasonable steps to allow entities the chief executive considers may have an interest in the proposed guideline to give the chief executive written submissions about it. (sec.26-ssec.4) A failure to take reasonable steps to allow an entity to give the chief executive written submissions about a proposed guideline under subsection (3) does not affect the validity of the guideline.

• (a) matters relating to the administration of this Act; or
• (b) complying with other requirements imposed under this Act.
• (a) the operation of provisions of this Act about monitoring and enforcement of compliance with this Act;
• (b) ways in which exhibited animals may be exhibited or dealt with, including, for example, acceptable ways of ensuring an animal’s enclosure appropriately provides for the animal’s normal behaviours;