Food Act 2014

Provisions relating to recognition, territorial authorities, administration, and enforcement - Recognised agencies, persons, and classes of persons - Miscellaneous matters

170: Chief executive may require notification of termination of contracts

You could also call this:

"The boss of a food safety team can ask to be told when a contract to check food safety ends."

The chief executive can ask a verifier or verification agency to tell them when a contract with a client ends. This contract is about managing or doing verification functions and activities. The chief executive can ask for this information for all contracts or just for specific ones.

When a contract ends, the verifier or verification agency must tell the chief executive in writing as soon as possible, and no later than 7 days after it ends. The chief executive can use a notice under section 405 to ask for this information. This notice is a type of secondary legislation, which has its own publication requirements, as explained in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

You need to know that the verifier or verification agency has to follow the chief executive's notice. The notice can be general or specific to a particular case. The chief executive's request is an important part of how they oversee verification functions and activities.

This text is automatically generated. It might be out of date or be missing some parts. Find out more about how we do this.

This page was last updated on 5 June 2025

View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM6087072.

Topics:

Health and wellbeing > Food and water safetyBusiness > Industry rules

169: Means of consultation, or

"How the chief executive talks to you about important things and listens to your thoughts."

171: Chief executive must consider exemption, waiver, or refund of fees, or

"The boss must think about reducing or refunding fees if you're applying for more than one thing at once."

Part 4Provisions relating to recognition, territorial authorities, administration, and enforcement
Recognised agencies, persons, and classes of persons: Miscellaneous matters

170Chief executive may require notification of termination of contracts

The chief executive may, by notice under section 405, require any verifier or verification agency to notify the chief executive of the termination of any contract with a client for managing or carrying out verification functions and activities.
The notice may apply generally or to any particular case or class of case.
The verifier or verification agency must notify the chief executive in writing of the termination as soon as practicable, and in no case later than 7 days after it occurs.
A notice issued under section 405 in reliance on this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

Notes

Section 170(4): inserted, on 28 October 2021, by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).