S.L. 439.13 Art. 25Specific requirements for personnel.

(1) The Department shall establish and maintain a monitoring and enforcement system to ensure that each breeder, supplier and user has one or several persons on site who shall:

(a) be responsible for overseeing the welfare and care of the animals in the establishment;

(b) ensure that the staff dealing with animals have access to specific information relating to the species kept in the establishment;

(c) be responsible for ensuring that the staff are adequately educated, competent and continuously trained and that they are supervised until they have demonstrated the requisite competence.

(2) The Department shall at all times guarantee that persons mentioned in regulation 41(2)(b) shall:

(a) eliminate any unnecessary pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm that is being inflicted on an animal in the course of a procedure;

(b) ensure that the projects are carried out in accordance with the project authorisation in terms of regulation 37, or in the cases referred to in regulation 43, in accordance with the application sent to the Department in terms of regulation 38, or any decision taken by the Department; and

(c) in the event of non-compliance, ensure that all appropriate measures are taken to rectify such position or mal-practice as the case may be. Such measures taken for such rectification shall be recorded.