Lecture 4 Flashcards
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What is The Animal Care and Protection Act 2001
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Promotes responsible care and use of animals It places a legal duty of acre on people in charge of animals to meet those animals’ needs in an appropriate way
2
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What is the purpose of the ACPA (2001)
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- Promote respinsible care and use of animals
- Provide standards for use and care
- Achieve a reasonable balance between the welfare of the animals and the intrest of the persons whose livelihood is dependent on the animal
- Allow for the effect advances in scientific knowledge about animal biology and changes in community expectations about practices involving animals
- Protect from unjustifiable, unnessary or unreasonable pain
- Ensure the use of animals for scientific purposes is accountable, open and reasonsible
3
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What is the ACPA framework
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- Regulations that require compliance with codes of practice
- Prohibiting certain conduct in relation to animals
- Imposing a duty of care on persons in charge of animals
- Monitoring of animals used for scientific purposes
- Enforcement provisions and authorzied officers
4
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What are the Animal Care and Protection Regulations 2012
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- Regulations provide the ‘action plan’ or rules of implementation to support the act
5
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What is an animal?
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- Animal care and protection Act 2001 covers all living vertebrate animals. It includes mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish, as well as cephalopod and malacostrapod invertebrates
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What can enforce the act?
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- The Act is administered by Biosecurity Queensland. Specally trained Biosecruity Queensland or RSPCA animla welfare inspectors, or the police, investigate complaints about alleged offences
- There are very strict conditions under which the act can be enforced. Inspectors much be appointed under the act
- Vets DO NOT have the power to enforce the act
- Police - different powers under the Policy Powers and Responsibility Act
7
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As a trained and appointed inspector you can:
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- Enter places and cehicles
- Inspect animals
- Relieve animal pain
- Copy documents relating to animal welfare investigations
- Issue an animal welfare direction
- Seize an animal
- Destroy an animal
8
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What is the Duty of Care
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- Duty of care places a legal obligation on those in charge of animals to provide for an animal’s needs in an appropriate
- If you are in charge of an animal, you have a duty of care to that animal - no matter why you are in charge of it, what you are using it for or how long it will be in your care
- Duty of care is based on the 5 freedoms
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What is the ‘person in charge’
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- Owns or has a lease, licence or other proprietary intrest, in the animal
- Has custody of the animal, including care or control of the animal
- Employs or engages someone else who has custody of the animal, ant thus custody is within the scope of the employment or engagement
10
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What is joint duty of care
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- More than one person can have duty of care to animals at the same time.
- Not hold responsible for event that happen before the animal
11
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Veterinarian’s duty of care responsibilities
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- When examining and treating an amimal, the vet has tempoary custody of the animals and so has a duty of care
- Vet must ensure appropriate handling, housing and conditions for the animals
- Must give appropriate care for the animal species, taking into account the environment and circumstances
- If an animal in your custody is in pain, you should use analgesics appropriately
- Vets duty of care to an animal extends to members of staff associated with the practies
12
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Treatment decisions
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- Owners decide what treatment
- Vet responsibe for giving welfare consequences of decision
13
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What happens when there is an inability to pay
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- If the owner prefers a particular trearment but cannot pay for that treatment, you may wish to negotiate further opetions. As a vet, you have professional ethical considerations: however, under the Animal Care and Protection Act 2001, the owner is responsible for the animal. Their inability to pay does not pass that reponsibility to you
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When can an inspector destroy an animal
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- Animal had been seized or the person in charge of the animal has given written consent to the destruction and
- The inspector reasonably believes that the animal is in pain to the extent that it is cruel to keep it alive
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Prevention of Cruelty to Animals POCTA
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- A vet practitioner may, with any assistance that is necessary, destory any animal
- That is behaving in sucha a manner and there is such circumstances that the vet practitioner reasonably believes that the animals is likely to cause death or serious injury to any person or other animal
- That is abandoned, distressed or siables if the vet reasonably believes that the animal’scondition is such that would continue to suffer if it remained alive
