Chief executive may approve different devices for different animals or circumstances
176 Chief executive may approve different devices for different animals or circumstances
The chief executive may decide different specifications for approved devices to be fitted to different types of special designated animals.
The specifications must state the technical requirements for a device and may also provide for any of the following—
the type of special designated animal to which the device may be fitted;
the circumstances that must apply to a special designated animal before the device may be fitted to the animal;
the purposes for which the device may be fitted to a special designated animal.
The chief executive must publish the specifications on the department’s website.
In deciding the specifications, the chief executive must, to the greatest practicable extent, comply with the provisions of a relevant code of practice, including, for example, provisions about the following—
the testing of tags for suitability for fitting to an animal;
the purposes of different types of tags;
the positioning of tags fitted to special designated animals;
conditions for the re-use, recycling and destruction of tags.
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