Legislation, Codes of Practice & Standards
Legislation
Mandatory
- Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Land Transport of Livestock) Standards 2013
- Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals in Films and Theatrical Performances
- NSW Animal Welfare Code of Practice - Commercial Pig Production
- Animal Welfare Code of Practice No 4 - Keeping and Trading of Birds
Evidentiary
- Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals: Animals at Saleyards
- NSW Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals Used in Rodeo Events
- National Guidelines for Beef Cattle Feedlots in Australia
- Welfare scoring nutritionally deprived beef cattle, dairy cattle and their crosses, sheep and horses
- Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines for Cattle
- Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines – Sheep
- Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals: The Goat
- Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Domestic Poultry
- Model Code of Practice: Farmed buffalo
- Model Code of Practice: Farming of deer
Other Codes of Practice
- Model Code of Practice: Livestock at slaughtering establishments
- Model Code of Practice for the welfare of animals: Pigs
- Model Code of Practice: Camels
- Model Code of Practice: Intensive husbandry of rabbits
- Model Code of Practice: Husbandry of captive-bred emus
- Model Code of Practice: Farming of ostriches
NSW DPIRD animal welfare factsheets & resources
General welfare
- Glovebox guide - Biosecurity, Emergency Animal Diseases and preparing livestock for transport
- Humane destruction of livestock
- Animal welfare at saleyards - Responsibilities for managers and staff
- Livestock feed curfew before transport
- Preventing and managing ingrown horns for livestock welfare - cattle version
- Preventing and managing ingrown horns in sheep
- Welfare scoring nutritionally deprived beef cattle, dairy cattle and their crosses, sheep and horses
Stock welfare during tough times
- Confinement feeding stock
- Enforcement information
- How to: transport and sell livestock
- Obligations and considerations
- Stock welfare during tough times - brochure
- Transport roles and responsibilities
- Stock welfare in tough times posters
- Transporting sheep in tough times