NZALA report prompts select committee briefing recommending animal welfare legislation review

On 31 July 2023 the Regulations Review Committee released its report, Briefing on Animal Welfare Secondary Legislation. 

The Committee decided to prepare this report to the House after a presentation in September 2022 by NZALA to the Committee, on NZALA's report about the gap between the Animal Welfare Act and its secondary legislation.

The Regulations Review Committee's report has recommended that the Government conduct a prompt and substantive review of the process for developing secondary legislation under the Animal Welfare Act 1999; and whether all existing secondary legislation, particularly codes of welfare, are consistent with the objects and intentions of the Act.  

The report is available here.

NZALA awaits the Government response to the Committee's recommendation, likely presented to the House before the end of the year.