Policies, procedures and guidelines
National / State codes and guidelines
- Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1986 (the Act)
- Australian code of practice for the care and use of animals for scientific purposes 8th Edition, 2013 (pdf, 450kb)
- Victorian Codes of Practice for Animal Welfare
- NSW Department of Primary Industries and Animal Research Review Panel initiative (ARRP) - Guidelines in wildlife research
- Other Australian Legislation
- Investigator guidelines for record keeping
- Code of practice for the housing and care of laboratory mice, rats, guinea pigs and rabbits
- Guidelines to the care and use of Australian native mammals in Research and Teaching
- Guidelines to promote the well-being of animals used for scientific purposes: The assessment and alleviation of pain and distress in research animals (PDF,1698kb)
- Guidelines specific to researchers undertaking wildlife studies - taken from Section 5 of the Code of Practice (pdf, 25kb)
- Australian Society of Herpetologists Inc. Position Statement No. 1 - Toe clipping of lizards (pdf, 111kb)
- Clarifying the effect of toe clipping on frogs with Bayesian statistics (pdf, 169kb)
- Toe-bud clipping of juvenile small marsupials for ecological field research: No detectable negative effects on growth or survival (pdf, 237kb)
- Minimising exposure of amphibians to pathogens during field studies (pdf, 98kb)
- Assessing ethical trade-offs in ecological field studies (pdf, 181kb)
- Guidelines for Animal Ethics Committees in Victoria