New Zealand Legislation: Acts

85 Restrictions on use of non-human hominids

• (1) No person may carry out any research, testing, or teaching involving the use of a non-human hominid unless such use has first been approved by the Director-General and the research, testing, or teaching is carried out in accordance with any conditions imposed by the Director-General.

  (2) The Director-General may, in giving approval under subsection (1), impose, as conditions of that approval, such conditions as the Director-General thinks fit.

  (3) The Director-General may from time to time, by notice in writing to any person holding an approval under subsection (1),—

  • (a) revoke any condition of that approval:

  • (b) revoke any condition of that approval, and impose another condition in its place:

  • (c) amend any condition of that approval.

  (4) The Director-General must consult with the National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee before exercising the powers conferred by subsection (1) or subsection (2) or subsection (3).

  (5) The Director-General must not give approval under subsection (1) unless he or she is satisfied—

  • (a) that the use of the non-human hominid in the research, testing, or teaching is in the best interests of the non-human hominid; or

  • (b) that the use of the non-human hominid in the research, testing, or teaching is in the interests of the species to which the non-human hominid belongs and that the benefits to be derived from the use of the non-human hominid in the research, testing, or teaching are not outweighed by the likely harm to the non-human hominid.

  (6) The Director-General must monitor the carrying out of any research, testing, or teaching to which an approval given under subsection (1) relates.

  (7) A person commits an offence who contravenes subsection (1).

  (8) Nothing in sections 82 to 84 applies in relation to research, testing, or teaching that involves the use of a non-human hominid.