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) exempting under section 6 any winemaker from the ambit of the Act or from the requirement to operate under a wine standards management plan:
(b) prescribing requirements, criteria, specifications, procedures, and related matters in relation to wine standards management plans and the amending and updating of wine standards management plans:
(c) prescribing wine standards, including criteria, specifications, and other related matters, in accordance with subpart 2 of Part 2:
(d) prescribing export eligibility requirements under section 38, and procedures and requirements in relation to them:
(e) prescribing procedures and requirements relating to the registration of exporters:
(f) prescribing exemptions for, or additions to, any class of consignment, wine, or person for the purposes of section 39(2), including prescribing conditions in respect of any such exemption or addition and authorising the Director-General to exempt or impose conditions in relation to any consignment, wine, or person of a prescribed class:
(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 recognition of agencies and persons:
(i) prescribing the information or other matters that must be specified, or that may or may not be specified, in any label on any bottle or other container of wine or any class or description of wine, and the requirements that must be met for that information or other matter to be specified or not specified:
(j) imposing and prescribing fees, charges, levies, and other cost recovery mechanisms for the purposes of subpart 2 of Part 3, and generally for the purposes of this Act:
(k) imposing and prescribing levies to fund industry activities relating to wine pursuant to section 111:
(l) prescribing records, returns, or information in relation to wine or associated things that any person or class of persons may be required to keep or provide to the Director-General or any wine officer:
(m) prescribing forms and procedures for the purposes of this Act:
(n) specifying matters that constitute offences for the purposes of section 103(1)(b):
(o) specifying any matters of a general nature that may be specified by the Director-General by notice under section 120:
(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 a wine officer 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 wine, process, operation, person, place, premises, or area, or authorise the Minister or the Director-General to grant such exemptions as the regulations may specify.