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Animal Products Act 1999

Risk management programmes

14: Director-General may grant limited exemption from requirement to have risk management programme

You could also call this:

"The boss can excuse you from some rules about keeping people and animals safe, for a little while."

The Director-General can let you off having a risk management programme, but only a little bit. You might not have to follow all the rules, or you might not have to follow them for a certain amount of time. The Director-General will decide this and tell you in a notice, which can be done under section 167(1).

The Director-General will only do this if they think it will not hurt people or animals. They can also say you have to follow certain conditions.

The Director-General can make this decision look back in time, which means it can start before they actually made the decision.

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Part 2Risk management programmes

14Director-General may grant limited exemption from requirement to have risk management programme

  1. The Director-General may, by notice under section 167(1), exempt in whole or in part any producer or processor from the requirement to formulate or operate under a risk management programme—

  2. for such period as is specified in the notice; and
    1. on such conditions (if any) as may be specified in the notice.

      1. The Director-General may not grant an exemption under subsection (1) unless satisfied that the risk to human or animal health of providing the exemption is negligible (having regard, if appropriate, to the period of the exemption or the conditions imposed).

      2. Repealed

      3. An exemption under subsection (1) may have retrospective effect.

      Notes
      • Section 14(1): amended, on , by section 66 of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).
      • Section 14(3): repealed, on , by section 10(a) of the Animal Products Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 29).
      • Section 14(4): amended, on , by section 10(b) of the Animal Products Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 29).