EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

POLICE OFFENCES ORDINANCE 1953

No. 12 of 1953

	The purpose of this Ordinance is to enable certain research workers in the National University and the Department of Health to be authorized by the Minister for Health to perform or to control, direct and supervise operations and experiments of an investigational nature on living animals.  Section 68 of the Police Offences Ordinance 1930-1948 already permits legally qualified medical and veterinary practitioners to perform vivisection:  this Ordinance extends the authorization to University graduates engaged in biological research.