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Who will sit on the committee and how will they be selected?

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Section 11 creates the Independent Office of Animal Welfare advisory committee and it is the role of the minister to appoint the following people to the independent committee: three representatives of non-government animal welfare organisations, two representatives from approved charitable organisations, two animal welfare scientists, one animal welfare ethicist, one representative of the commercial animal industry, one government representative and one local council representative.