Animal Welfare Committee

Terms of reference 

The Animal Welfare Committee will advise the National Health and Medical Research Council Chief Executive Officer, through NHMRC's Research Committee, on:

1. Issues pertaining to the care and use of animals for scientific purposes, in particular, for health and medical research, and the ethics of such use.
2. The regular review and, if necessary, revision of the Australian code for the care and use of animals for scientific purposes and on the development and revision of other NHMRC documents related to using animals in health and medical research.

Committee operation

The Animal Welfare Committee is a working committee established under Section 39 of the National Health and Medical Research Council Act 1992. It is not an animal ethics committee (AEC) and does not perform the functions of an AEC as outlined in the Australian code for the care and use of animals for scientific purposes.

Enquiries

For further information about the Animal Welfare Committee, please contact ethics@nhmrc.gov.au

Committee members