1. Registration of establishments engaged in breeding of animals and conducting experiments on animals and renewal of registered establishments.
2. Constitution, re-constitution and revision of the Institutional Animal Ethics Committee.
3. Approval of animal house facilities for Small and Large animals.
4. Examination of research protocols for experimentation on animals or pre-scrutinization of research protocols on large animals and their approval.
5. Inspection of animal house facilities of establishments, institutes and center's where experimental animals are kept for research, production of Biopharmaceuticals and Breeding purpose.
6. Conducting conference, seminar, workshops, nominee trainings and the like for the awareness of laboratory animal welfare and ethics and to promote the principles of the replacement, reduction and refinement with respect to use of animals for experiments and teaching or training purposes and to recognize the available non- animal methods and non-animal derived biological products as per the mandate of Committee.
7. To advise the Government regarding the welfare of animals meant for experimentation in research institutions, pharmaceutical companies and educational institutions.
8. To ensure implementation of rules and guidelines of the Committee made under the said Act for welfare of animals.
9. Analyze inspection reports submitted by the nominee of Committee and scrutinize the minutes of the Institutional Animal Ethics Committee meeting submitted by the establishment.
10. Make efforts to tap more and more establishments housing laboratory animals and bring them under the ambit of the Committee.
11. Any other work related to Laboratory Animal Welfare as per the mandate of the Committee assigned as per the said Act.
12. Revision of the guidelines of Committee, their dissemination, implementation and monitoring.
13. Grading of animal house facilities purpose wise categorically like that: -
- Medical college set up,
- Pharmacy college set up,
- Veterinary college set up,
- Research Institute set up,
- Pharma industry set up,
- Vaccine industry set up,
- Life sciences University set up, and the like.
14. Maintenance of database on the available non-animal methods for experiments, teaching and training.