Proposed Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines – Exhibited Animals Consultation Regulation Impact Statement March 2014
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A4.14 – Incremental cost of holding enclosure requirements – S3.7 and S3.8 (Crocodiles)Under the taxon standards an operator must ensure that:
i. 2.5 x snout-vent length long; and ii. 1.5 x snout-vent length wide (S3.7) (except NSW).
The cost of holding enclosures for an individual crocodilian for 5% of all facilities in jurisdictions except for NSW would include an additional one-off capital cost of moving or removing fencing to allow for the necessary spatial requirements. This is estimated to be $50 for labour at 2hrs or $100. To allow a crocodilian to regulate its heat a piece of suspended timber or plastic can be hung over a holding enclosure. On the other hand, heat lamps could be used in a holding enclosure to prevent over cooling. The cost of both of these is estimated to be around $100 per enclosure (made up of mainly ultra violet heat lamps). These would entail a very minor cost to 5% of all facilities (i.e. non-compliant holding enclosures) for all jurisdictions. Subsequently the cost of holding enclosure requirements would be around $200 per non-compliant enclosure in all jurisdictions and $100 per non-compliant enclosure for NSW. The one-off estimated cost of holding enclosure requirements under Clauses S3.7 and S3.8 would be $3,972, as shown in Table A4.25. This would affect approximately 18 crocodile holding enclosures across Australia. Table A4.25: Estimated cost of holding enclosure requirements (crocodiles)
As shown in Table A4.26, the estimated one-off cost of holding enclosure requirements (crocodiles) over 10 years would be $3,712 in present value 2012-13 dollars with 58.58% of the cost incurred by medium size facilities - particularly in NSW, VIC, QLD, and WA. Table A4.26: Estimated one-off cost of holding enclosure requirements (crocodiles) by state and territory and size of facility over 10 years – 2012-13 dollars
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