Acts
- Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1979
- Exhibited Animals Protection Act 1986
- Animal Research Act 1985
Regulations
- Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Regulation 2025
- Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Amendment (Virtual Fencing) Regulation 2025
- Exhibited Animals Protection Regulation 2021
- Animal Research Regulation 2021
Codes of practice and standards
POCTAA 1979
- NSW Animal Welfare Code of Practice No 1 - Companion Animal Transport Agencies
- NSW Animal Welfare Code of Practice No 3 - Horses in Riding Centres and Boarding Stables
- NSW Animal Welfare Code of Practice No 4 - Keeping and Trading of Birds
- NSW Animal Welfare Code of Practice No 5 - Dogs and Cats in Animal Boarding Establishments
- NSW Animal Welfare Code of Practice No 8 - Animals in Pet Grooming Establishments
- NSW Animal Welfare Code of Practice No 9 - Security Dogs
- Animal Welfare Code of Practice - Animals in Pet Shops
- Animal Welfare Code of Practice - Breeding Dogs and Cats
- Animal Welfare Code of Practice - Commercial Pig Production
- Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Land Transport of Livestock) Standards 2013 No 2
- Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals Used in Rodeo Events
- Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals in Films and Theatrical Performances
Exhibited Animals Protection Act 1986
- General Standards for Exhibiting Animals in New South Wales
- Policy on Exhibiting Primates in New South Wales
- Standards for Exhibiting Animals at Mobile Establishments in New South Wales
- Standards for Exhibiting Animals during Temporary Removals in New South Wales
- Standards for Exhibiting Australian Mammals in New South Wales
- Standards for Exhibiting Bottle-nosed Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in New South Wales
- Standards for Exhibiting Captive Raptors in New South Wales
- Standards for Exhibiting Carnivores in New South Wales
- Standards for Exhibiting Circus Animals in New South Wales
- Standards for Exhibiting Seals in New South Wales
Animal Research Act 1985
Evidentiary guidelines
- Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals: Domestic Poultry
- Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals: Farmed Buffalo
- Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals: Animals at Saleyards
- Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals: The Goat
- Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals: The Farming of Deer
- National Guidelines for Beef Cattle Feedlots in Australia
- NSW Animal Welfare Guide for Virtual Fencing of Cattle
- 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 for Sheep
Amendments
- Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Amendment Act 2021 No 15
- Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Amendment (Transparency and Fit and Proper Persons) Act 2024
- Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Amendment (Prohibitions for Convicted Persons) Act 2022
- Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Amendment (Puppy Farming) Act 2024
- Animal Research Amendment (Right to Release) Act 2022
- Animal Research Amendment (Prohibition of Forced Swim Tests & Forced Smoke Inhalation Experiments) Act 2024