{"id":39,"date":"2022-05-19T01:03:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T00:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalethics.org.nz\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2026-01-11T01:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:40:08","slug":"committee-meeting-dates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/animalethics.org.nz\/?page_id=39","title":{"rendered":"Committee Meeting Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Schools\u2019 Animal Ethics Committee aims to make the process as easy and as educational as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-background-color has-background\">The Committee meets<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>during the school year to consider applications. Please ensure that your application is submitted at least <strong>1 week<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>before&nbsp;<\/strong>the Committee meets.&nbsp;<strong>Approval is required&nbsp;before&nbsp;any work commences.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students and teachers can apply to the Committee for approval:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Students&nbsp;\u2013 For individual student investigations, including those for Science Fairs, CREST Awards, Bright Sparks and other similar events approval is given for up to one year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Teachers&nbsp;\u2013 For science, biology, equine, animal care, aquaculture and agriculture teaching approval is given for three years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2026 meeting dates are below. Applications are required to be submitted one week before that meeting date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Monday 23rd February <em>(Submitted by 16th February)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Monday 23rd March <em>(Submitted by 16th March)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Monday 4th May <em>(Submitted by 27th April)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Monday 15th June <em>(Submitted by 8th June)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Monday 27th July <em>(Submitted by 20th July)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Monday 30th November <em>(Submitted by 23rd November)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-purple-background-color has-background\"><a href=\"https:\/\/animalethics.org.nz\/?page_id=179\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apply for Animal Ethics approval<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Applications can be sent by email to:&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:animalethicscommittee@nzase.org.nz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">animalethicscommittee@nzase.org.nz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or by post to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schools\u2019 Animal Ethics Committee,<br>NZASE<br>PO Box 37-342<br>Halswell<br>Christchurch 8245<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-green-background-color has-background\">Please email us:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:animalethicscommittee@nzase.org.nz\" target=\"_blank\">animalethicscommittee@nzase.org.nz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Schools\u2019 Animal Ethics Committee aims to make the process as easy and as educational as possible. The Committee meets&nbsp;during the school year to consider applications. Please ensure that your application is submitted at least 1 week&nbsp;before&nbsp;the Committee meets.&nbsp;Approval is required&nbsp;before&nbsp;any work commences. Students and teachers can apply to the Committee for approval: The 2026&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/animalethics.org.nz\/?page_id=39\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Committee Meeting Dates<\/span><\/a><\/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-39","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalethics.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39","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=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/animalethics.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/animalethics.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalethics.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}