Proposed Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines – Exhibited Animals Consultation Regulation Impact Statement March 2014
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A4.12 – Barrier requirements S3.1 and S6.4 (Crocodiles)Under proposed standard S3.1, the operator must ensure crocodilian enclosure barriers comply with the enclosure barrier specifications in Appendix 1 or are approved by the relevant government authority as providing equal or better containment. Under proposed standard S6.4 the operator must ensure where natural incubation of eggs occurs that the enclosure barriers prevent escape of hatchlings. It is assumed that due to the dangerous nature of mature crocodiles – market forces would guard against inadequate barriers (i.e. barriers that would allow crocodile escapes). Furthermore, market forces would encourage facilities to protect assets (i.e. young crocodiles or crocodile hatchlings) and precautions to prevent escape would already be part of existing practice. Therefore, these clauses are not seen as generating incremental costs. A4.13 – Incremental costs of enclosure furniture and spatial requirements S3.3, S3.4, S3.5 and S3.6 (Crocodiles)Under the taxon standards the operator must ensure:
i. one horizontal surface dimension 4 x snout-vent length of the longest crocodilian it houses; and ii. one area with a minimum width of 1 x snout-vent length of the longest crocodilian in the enclosure. This width must cover the horizontal dimension calculated in 3.5.i.
i. a minimum of 200 mm of water covers their highest point; or ii. a depth of water equivalent to 0.2 x snout-vent length covers their highest point (S3.6) (except for QLD) Clauses S3.4, S3.5 and S3.6 would be relevant for all jurisdictions except for QLD where existing codes already specify these requirements under the base case. The implication of this is that for the 5% of non-compliant non-walkthrough display enclosures, this would involve moving or removing barriers at a rate of $50 per hour for 14hrs (2 days) of labour time ($750) plus estimated material costs at $15,000172 per enclosure representing a variety of materials either singly or in combination, such as concrete, sheet metal, wire mesh with various apertures, glass, cable, steel rods – (i.e. a total cost of $15,750 per non-walkthrough enclosure including ponds and basking areas). Proposed standard S3.3 (ponds and basking areas requirement) would be relevant to all jurisdictions and is assumed to be around $1,000 per enclosure. Therefore the total cost of furniture and spatial requirements would be $15,750 for all jurisdictions except for QLD where the cost per enclosure would be $1,750 (pond and basking area and labour only). The estimated one-off cost of meeting furniture and spatial requirements under Clauses S3.3, S3.4, S3.5 and S3.6 would be $0.3m, as shown in Table A4.23. This would affect approximately 18 crocodile enclosures across Australia. Table A4.23: Estimated one-off cost of furniture and spatial requirements (crocodiles)
As shown in Table A4.24, the estimated one-off cost of furniture and spatial requirements (crocodiles) over 10 years would be $0.28m in present value 2012-13 dollars with 52.17% of the cost incurred by medium size facilities - particularly in NSW, VIC, and WA. Table A4.24: Estimated one-off cost of furniture and spatial requirements (crocodiles) by state and territory and size of facility over 10 years – 2012-13 dollars
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