National Parks Board Act 1996

2020 REVISED EDITION

This revised edition incorporates all amendments up to and including 1 December 2021 and comes into operation on 31 December 2021

An Act to reconstitute the National Parks Board and to provide for the transfer of the property, rights and liabilities of the Parks and Recreation Department to the National Parks Board, and for matters connected therewith.

[1 July 1996]

PART 1

PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. This Act is the National Parks Board Act 1996.

Interpretation

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“animal” includes a mammal (other than a human being), a bird, a reptile, an amphibian, a fish, a mollusc, an arthropod, and the young or egg of any animal;

“animal-related services” includes any of the following activities:

(a)	bathing, grooming or clipping of animals;
(b)	treatment, vaccination or inoculation of animals;
(c)	providing accommodation or boarding to or training of animals;
(d)	exhibiting (whether or not for sale) of animals;
(e)	trapping, restraining or immobilising animals;

“animal-related services industry” means an industry consisting of persons carrying out any animal-related services in the course of business;

“Board” means the National Parks Board established under the repealed National Parks Act (Cap. 198A, 1991 Revised Edition) in force before 1 July 1996 and continued by section 3;

“Chairperson” means the Chairperson of the Board and includes any acting Chairperson of the Board;

“Chief Executive” means the Chief Executive of the Board and includes any person acting in that capacity;

“landscape industry” means an industry comprising persons who carry on any business or engage in any commercial activity in connection with one or more, or any part, or any combination, of the following:

(a)	landscaping works and services;
(b)	the supply of plants or landscaping or related products;
(c)	the growing and supply of flowers and ornamental plants;

“landscaping works and services” includes the provision of services in landscape design, landscape architecture, planting and landscaping, arboriculture maintenance, horticulture maintenance and turf maintenance;

“member” means a member of the Board;

“national park” has the meaning given by the Parks and Trees Act 2005;

“nature reserve” has the meaning given by the Parks and Trees Act 2005;

“organism” has the meaning given by the Parks and Trees Act 2005;

“Parks and Recreation Department” means the Parks and Recreation Department of the Ministry of National Development;

“plant” has the meaning given by the Parks and Trees Act 2005;

“public authority” means a body corporate established by a public Act for the purposes of a public function;

“public park” has the meaning given by the Parks and Trees Act 2005;

“subdelegate” means a person to whom a delegate under section 10(2) further delegates the performance or exercise of any of the Board’s functions, duties or powers;

“transfer date” means 1 April 2019;

“veterinary establishment” means any premises or place in which veterinary medicine is practised or veterinary services are provided;

“veterinary medicine” means any branch or art of veterinary medicine and includes veterinary surgery;

“veterinary product” means any chemical, substance or equipment used or designed for use in the practice of veterinary medicine or the provision of veterinary services;

“veterinary science industry” means an industry consisting of persons carrying on business, or who engage in commercial activity, involving all or any of the following:

(a)	the practice of veterinary medicine;
(b)	the provision of veterinary services;
(c)	the management of a veterinary establishment;
(d)	the supply of veterinary products;

“veterinary service” means a service provided in relation to an animal in the control or the possession of a person for any of the following purposes:

(a)	assessing, recording, maintaining or improving the health, welfare, comfort or wellbeing of the animal;
(b)	diagnosing or treating an illness, disability, disorder or condition of the animal;
(c)	examining or attending to the animal, including administering a veterinary product to or performing any surgical procedure on the animal;
(d)	performing any cosmetic procedure (including surgery) on the animal;
(e)	castrating or spaying of the animal;
(f)	giving advice based on a diagnosis or an examination mentioned in paragraph (b) or (c) or connected with a procedure in paragraph (d) or (e), including prescribing treatment, drugs, medications or medical appliances. [9/2017; 10/2019]

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