Trade in Endangered Species Act 1989

Endangered Species Officers

43: Duty of officers and employees of postal operators

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"Postal workers must help stop endangered animals and plants being sent illegally to or from New Zealand"

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If you work for a postal company in New Zealand, you have a job to do under the Trade in Endangered Species Act 1989. You must help make sure that endangered animals or plants are not sent to or from New Zealand in a way that breaks the law. This means you must follow the rules in the Postal Services Act 1998 to stop these animals or plants being imported or exported illegally.

When a postal package is delivered to the Director-General or someone they have chosen, the rules of the Trade in Endangered Species Act 1989 apply. This is like the package being seized, and it happens on the day the package is delivered, according to section 39 of this Act.

You must assist in carrying out the provisions of this Part of the Act and prevent the import into and export from New Zealand of any specimen of an endangered species otherwise than in accordance with this Act, as stated in the Postal Services Act 1998.

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42: Disposal of seized specimens, or

"What happens to animals or plants that are seized because they are endangered or were brought into New Zealand illegally"

43A: Taking and analysis of samples of specimens, or

"Checking if an animal was bred in captivity by taking and testing samples"

Part 3Endangered Species Officers

43Duty of officers and employees of postal operators

It is the duty of all officers and employees of every postal operator within the meaning of the Postal Services Act 1998 to assist in carrying out the provisions of this Part and to prevent the import into and export from New Zealand of any specimen of an endangered, threatened, or exploited species otherwise than in accordance with this Act.
Where any postal article (within the meaning of the Postal Services Act 1998) is delivered, pursuant to section 10(2)(c) of that Act, to the Director-General or to such other person as the Director-General has directed, the provisions of this Act, so far as applicable and with all necessary modifications, apply as if the postal article had been seized, pursuant to subsection (2) or subsection (3) of section 39 of this Act (whichever subsection is applicable), on the date of that delivery.

Notes

Section 43: substituted, on 1 April 1998, by section 62(1) of the Postal Services Act 1998 (1998 No 2).