Bureau of Animal Welfare

Guidelines & Policies

• Code of Practice for the Housing and Care of Laboratory Mice, Rats, Guinea Pigs and Rabbits (external link)
  
  
• Code of Practice for the Use of Animals from Municipal Pounds for Scientific Procedures (external link)
  
  
• Guidelines for the Harvesting of Blood from Livestock for Commercial and Research Purposes (pdf 56kb)
  
  
• Tissue Collection for Genotyping is a Scientific Procedure (rtf 12kb)
  
  
• Scientific Premises Licensing Requirements (pdf 42kb)
  
  
• Advisory Notes for the Revised Licensing System (doc 59kb)
  
  
• BAW auditing protocol for licensed scientific premises (pdf 43kb)
  
  
• Annual Reporting
  
  
• Principles of Record Keeping for Investigators (rtf 26kb)