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Animal Products Act 1999

Risk management programmes - Registration of risk management programmes

22: Registration of risk management programme

You could also call this:

"Signing up for a food safety plan for your animal product business"

The Director-General must register a risk management programme if you meet certain conditions. You must make sure your programme complies with the requirements of the Animal Products Act 1999. Your programme must also ensure the animal product is fit for its intended purpose.

You need to be a fit and proper person to run an animal product business. The Director-General checks if you or your business directors have been convicted of fraud or dishonesty. Your business must be based in New Zealand, as defined in the Income Tax Act 2007, under section YD 1 or section YD 2.

The Director-General can register your programme with conditions, such as when you can start operating. After registering, the Director-General gives you a notice of registration, any conditions, and a registration number. The Director-General also gives your verifying agency a copy of the registered programme.

Your programme stays registered until it is deregistered under section 28 or you surrender it under section 29. The Director-General can impose more conditions or change existing ones after registration, and can also give you a notice in writing to do so, as if they were imposed when you first registered.

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Part 2Risk management programmes
Registration of risk management programmes

22Registration of risk management programme

  1. The Director-General must register a risk management programme submitted by an applicant if satisfied that—

  2. the content of the risk management programme—
    1. complies with the requirements imposed by or under this Act; and
      1. ensures that, as far as practicable, the animal product to be produced under the programme will be fit for intended purpose; and
        1. is clear enough to be readily understood by the operator, the Director-General, and the operator’s verifier; and
        2. the applicant is a fit and proper person to operate an animal product business, taking into account whether the applicant or any directors or managers of the business concerned have been convicted, whether in New Zealand or overseas, of any offence relating to fraud or dishonesty, or relating to management control or business activities in respect of businesses of a kind (whether in New Zealand or elsewhere) that are regulated under this Act; and
          1. the business, or its operator, is resident in New Zealand within the meaning of section YD 1 or YD 2 (excluding section YD 2(2)) of the Income Tax Act 2007.

            1. Nothing in subsection (1) requires the Director-General to register a risk management programme that purports to apply to a business or part of a business of a person other than the applicant if the Director-General has not approved the programme's coverage of that business or part of a business under section 17A.

            2. Registration may be subject to any reasonable conditions that the Director-General specifies. The conditions may include, but are not limited to, conditions relating to the commencement of operations under the programme.

            3. The Director-General must, as soon as practicable after registering a risk management programme, supply the applicant with—

            4. a notice of registration; and
              1. a notice of any conditions imposed under subsection (2); and
                1. a registration number or other unique identifier.

                    1. The Director-General may give the operator a notice in writing—

                    2. imposing further conditions as if they were imposed on registration under subsection (2); or
                      1. amending or revoking any conditions imposed under that subsection.

                        1. The Director-General must, as soon as practicable after registering a risk management programme, give the operator’s verifying agency a copy of the registered risk management programme.

                        2. Registration of a programme under this section continues in force until the programme is deregistered under section 28 or its registration is surrendered under section 29.

                        Notes
                        • Section 22(1)(a)(iii): inserted, on , by section 74(1) of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).
                        • Section 22(1)(c): amended, on , by section ZA 2(1) of the Income Tax Act 2007 (2007 No 97).
                        • Section 22(1A): inserted, on , by section 12(1) of the Animal Products Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 26).
                        • Section 22(1A): amended, on , by section 74(2) of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).
                        • Section 22(2): replaced, on , by section 447 of the Food Act 2014 (2014 No 32).
                        • Section 22(3)(c): amended, on , by section 74(3) of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).
                        • Section 22(3)(d): repealed, on , by section 74(4) of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).
                        • Section 22(3A): replaced, on , by section 447 of the Food Act 2014 (2014 No 32).
                        • Section 22(3A): amended, on , by section 74(5) of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).
                        • Section 22(4): amended, on , by section 74(6) of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).