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Biosecurity Act 1993

Surveillance and prevention

50: Identification systems

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"Ways to identify organisms and products to keep New Zealand safe and meet export rules"

The Director-General can approve systems to identify organisms and their products. You might need to use these systems to manage pests or show if an organism has certain qualities. The Director-General can also approve systems to meet overseas certification requirements for New Zealand exports.

When the Director-General approves an identification system, they make sure it provides a unique and clear identification. This identification must not be confusing with other systems. The Director-General does this to ensure the identification is useful for its purpose.

The Director-General can notify you about approved identification systems in the Gazette. You can find a register of these notices, which the Director-General must keep and make publicly available. Regulations might require you to use one of these approved identification systems.

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Part 4Surveillance and prevention

50Identification systems

  1. The Director-General may, from time to time, approve systems administered by specified persons for the purpose of enabling the identification of organisms and their products and associated premises.

  2. The Director-General may approve identification systems under this section for any of the following purposes:

  3. facilitating pest management:
    1. marking the presence or absence in organisms of particular qualities relating to the purposes of this Act:
      1. meeting the certification requirements of overseas authorities in respect of New Zealand exports.

        1. When considering the approval of an identification system under this section, the Director-General shall ensure that the identifications to be used—

        2. provide unique, clear, and lasting identification having regard to the purpose for which the identifications are needed; and
          1. do not create confusion with any other generally used system of identification.

            1. Regulations made under this Act may require persons of any kind or description to use one of any 1 or more identification systems approved under this section and notified in the Gazette in accordance with subsection (5).

            2. The Director-General may, by notice in the Gazette, specify the identification systems that may be used to comply with regulations made under this Act; and must keep, and make publicly available, a register of all Gazette notices made under this section.

            Notes
            • Section 50(1): replaced, on , by section 26(1) of the Biosecurity Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 89).
            • Section 50(4): replaced, on , by section 26(2) of the Biosecurity Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 89).
            • Section 50(5): inserted, on , by section 26(2) of the Biosecurity Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 89).