Proposed Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines – Exhibited Animals Consultation Regulation Impact Statement March 2014
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A4.9 – Incremental cost of providing for animal collection management plans and procedures – S6.1, S8.1 (Macropods)Under the proposed macropod taxon standards there would be a requirement for operators to develop, maintain and implement:
Furthermore, it is assumed that such plans and procedures would already be provided by 95% of operators and therefore would affect 5% of operators and would involve a time cost of 3 days i.e. one day for the development and half a day for the implementation of procedures and plans (one plan and one procedure in all). Furthermore it is assumed that large facilities already have such plans and procedures in place and, therefore, the estimation of incremental costs is undertaken for medium and small facilities only. Taking 7.5hrs as a typical working day, this would require a total one-off time cost of 22.5hrs per affected facility in QLD, WA, SA, NT, TAS, and ACT for those wishing to breed macropods otherwise it would be 11.25hrs. For the purpose of estimation, it is taken that only 50% of facilities in these jurisdictions operating across macropods166 would be involved in breeding programs. For NSW, VIC the time cost would relate only to specific restraint and capture procedures for macropods (as opposed to general procedures in Appendix 3) and 11.25hrs. This is because requirements under proposed standard S6.1 are already covered under the base case for these jurisdictions (see NSW Code 59(1), Vic wildlife licence conditions167). As discussed in Part A2.9 of Appendix 2 the hourly charge out rate for a program administrator is taken to be $101.52 including salary on-costs and overhead costs. This rate is used to determine the hourly time cost of plans and procedures. The estimated one-off cost of providing plans and procedures under Clauses S6.1 and S8.1 would be $39,913, as shown in Table A4.19. As shown in Table A4.20, the estimated one-off cost of providing plans and procedures (macropods) over 10 years would be $37,302 in present value 2012-13 dollars with 85.39% of the cost incurred by small size facilities - particularly in NSW, VIC, QLD and WA. Table A4.19: Estimated cost of plans and procedures (macropods)
Table A4.20: Estimated one-off cost of providing plans and procedures (macropods) by state and territory and size of facility over 10 years – 2012-13 dollars
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