{"id":1419,"date":"2026-06-01T05:42:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalethics.org.nz\/?page_id=1419"},"modified":"2026-06-01T05:42:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:42:55","slug":"animal-welfare-act-1999","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/animalethics.org.nz\/?page_id=1419","title":{"rendered":"Animal Welfare Act. 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-black-background-color has-background\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpi.govt.nz\/animals\/animal-welfare\/animals-research-testing-teaching\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Guide to Part 6 of the Animal Welfare Act 1999<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-black-background-color has-background\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislation.govt.nz\/act\/public\/1999\/0142\/18.0\/DLM50499.html\">Section 6<\/a> of the Act refers particularly to the use of animals in research, testing or teaching. The provisions of this section include ethical guidance for decision makers including an express requirement for Animal Ethics Committees, when considering project applications, to be satisfied that the benefits outweigh the harm and to promote the \u201cthree R\u2019s\u201d (reduce the numbers of animals used to the minimum, refine techniques so the harm is minimised and benefits maximised, and replace animals where possible with non-living or non-sentient alternatives).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guide to Part 6 of the Animal Welfare Act 1999<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1419","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalethics.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalethics.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalethics.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalethics.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalethics.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/animalethics.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/animalethics.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1419\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalethics.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}