Proposed Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines – Exhibited Animals Consultation Regulation Impact Statement March 2014
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A4.23 – Unquantifiable minor cost of quarantine requirements – S5.3 (Koalas)Under proposed standard S5.3, the operator would be required to ensure that newly acquired koalas undergo a minimum 30-day period of quarantine, unless advised otherwise by a veterinarian. This would result in potentially more quarantine facilities required. Operators could meet some of this requirement by modifying their acquisitions to accommodate the 30-day minimum period and therefore the incremental cost is expected to be minimal. However given that the population and frequency of new koala acquisitions is unknown – these clauses remain unquantifiable. A4.24 – Incremental cost of procedure requirements – S10.1 (Koalas)Under proposed standard S10.1, an operator would need to ensure that written procedures are developed, maintained and implemented for interactive programs utilising koalas. Furthermore, it is assumed that such procedures would already be provided by 95% of operators and therefore would affect 5% of operators and would involve a time cost of 1.5 days i.e. one day for the development and half a day for the implementation of procedures (1 procedure in all). It is assumed that large facilities already have such procedures in place and, therefore, the estimation of incremental costs is undertaken for medium facilities only199. Taking 7.5hrs as a typical working day, this would require a total one-off time cost of 11.25hrs per affected facility200 in NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, NT, TAS, and ACT. 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 procedures. The estimated one-off cost of developing maintaining and implementing a procedure for koala interactive programs under proposed standard S10.1 would be $881, as shown in Table A4.41 and would only affect medium size facilities. Table A4.41: Estimated one-off cost of developing maintaining and implementing procedures for koala interactive programs
As shown in Table A4.42, the estimated one-off cost of developing maintaining and implementing procedures for koala interactive programs over 10 years would be $823 in present value 2012-13 dollars with all the cost incurred by medium size facilities - particularly in NSW, VIC, QLD and WA. Table A4.42: Estimated one-off cost of developing maintaining and implementing procedures for koala interactive programs by state and territory and size of facility over 10 years – 2012-13 dollars
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