New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
(1) The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:
(a) Prescribing requirements, criteria, specifications, procedures, and related matters in relation to risk management programmes and the amending and updating of risk management programmes, and to elections to operate under a risk management programme under section 32 or the registration of a food safety programme as a risk management programme under section 34:
(b) Prescribing requirements, criteria, specifications, and other related matters in respect of regulated control schemes in accordance with section 38:
(c) Prescribing animal product standards, including criteria, specifications, and other related matters, in accordance with section 44:
(d) Prescribing exemptions for any class of consignment, animal material or product, or person for the purposes of section 50, including prescribing conditions in respect of any such exemption and authorising the Director-General to exempt or impose conditions in relation to any consignment, animal material or product, or person of a prescribed class:
(e) Prescribing procedures and requirements relating to the recognition of agencies and persons:
(f) Prescribing procedures and requirements relating to the registration of exporters:
(g) Prescribing procedures and requirements for applying for and obtaining official assurances, and otherwise prescribing matters in relation to official assurances:
(h) Prescribing procedures and requirements relating to the use by persons of identification, differentiation, and security systems and devices approved or specified under section 158, including prohibitions, restrictions, and conditions on the use of such systems and devices:
(i) Imposing and prescribing fees, charges, levies, and other cost recovery mechanisms for the purposes of Part 9, and generally for the purposes of this Act:
(j) Prescribing records, returns, or information in relation to animal material or animal products or associated things which any person or class of persons may be required to keep or provide to the Director-General or any animal product officer or official assessor:
(k) Prescribing performance standards, criteria, and specifications for recognised persons, recognised agencies, and official assessors, including requirements as to competencies, experience, and qualifications:
(ka) prescribing procedures and requirements for the listing of game estates:
(l) Prescribing procedures and requirements for the listing of homekill and recreational catch service providers:
(m) Prescribing for the purposes of section 69 classes of persons who may kill or process for reward homekill or recreational catch without requiring to be listed as homekill or recreational catch service providers:
(n) Prescribing forms and procedures for the purposes of this Act:
(o) Specifying matters which constitute offences for the purposes of section 135(1)(b):
(p) Providing for such other matters as are contemplated by or necessary for giving full effect to this Act and for its due administration.
(2) Regulations made under this Act may—
(a) Authorise the Minister or the Director-General to issue or impose any approval, requirement, prohibition, specification, restriction, condition, direction, instruction, or order in any particular case or class of cases:
(b) Authorise an animal product officer or official assessor to issue or impose any requirement, prohibition, condition, direction, or instruction in any particular case or class of cases:
(c) Exempt from compliance with or from the application of any provisions of the regulations any animal material, animal product, process, operation, person, place, premises, or area, or authorise the Minister or the Director-General to grant such exemptions as the regulations may specify.
Subsection (1)(e) was amended, as from 1 June 2005, by section 5(8) Animal Products Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 26) by omitting the words “the accreditation of”
.
Subsection (1)(k) was amended, as from 1 June 2005, by section 5(8) Animal Products Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 26) by substituting the word “recognised”
for the word “accredited”
.
Subsection (1)(ka) was inserted, as from 26 September 2002, by section 47 Animal Products Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 29).