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Biosecurity Act 1993

Surveillance and prevention

43: Duty to provide information

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"Tell authorities what you know to help keep New Zealand pest-free"

When someone is checking for pests or unwanted organisms, you might be asked to help. You may need to provide information about pests, pest agents, unwanted organisms, or risk goods if you have it. You could be asked to give assistance to help the inspector or authorised person get the information they need. You might be asked for help if you own or control something that could give them the information they need. This could be because you own or control an organism, organic material, or risk goods that they want to check. If you are asked, you will need to provide the information and help that the inspector or authorised person reasonably requests, so they can find out if there are pests or unwanted organisms in New Zealand.

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Part 4Surveillance and prevention

43Duty to provide information

  1. For the purposes of this Part, an inspector or authorised person may require any person referred to in subsection (2)—

  2. to provide any information held by the person concerning pests, pest agents, unwanted organisms, or risk goods that the inspector or authorised person believes on reasonable grounds is necessary to ascertain the presence or distribution in New Zealand of pests, pest agents, or unwanted organisms (or pests or unwanted organisms of a particular kind or description); and
    1. to provide such assistance as the inspector or authorised person reasonably requests to enable or facilitate the acquisition, collection, and recording of any such information ascertained.

      1. The persons referred to for the purposes of subsection (1) are—

      2. every person who owns, manages, or otherwise controls the means by which and the sources from which information required under subsection (1) may be generated; and
        1. every person who owns, manages, or otherwise controls any organism, organic material, or risk goods that may be monitored for the purposes of this Part.

          Compare
          • 1969 No 53 s 6
          Notes
          • Section 43(1)(a): amended, on , by section 3(1) of the Biosecurity Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 106).
          • Section 43(1)(a): amended, on , by section 22 of the Biosecurity Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 89).
          • Section 43(2)(b): amended, on , by section 3(2) of the Biosecurity Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 106).