Animal Products Act 1999

Risk management programmes - Registration of risk management programmes

24: Registration may not be transferred

You could also call this:

"You can't give your registration to someone else or use it at a different place."

When you register a risk management programme, it only applies to you and the specific place or premises you are operating from. You cannot transfer this registration to someone else or a different place. If you want to register a new programme that is very similar to an old one, you can do this in your name or for a new place. You can also extend your programme to someone else's business, but you need to get approval under section 17A.

If certain things change, like the name of your company or the people in your partnership, you will need to register a new programme instead of changing the old one. This also applies if the operator of the programme dies, goes bankrupt, or their business is closed down. The Director-General can decide that some changes do not require a new registration, but this would be done through a notice under section 167(1).

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23: Refusal to register programme, or

"When Your Animal Product Programme Registration is Turned Down"

25: Registration of significant amendments to risk management programme, or

"Tell the government about big changes to your animal product safety plan"

Part 2Risk management programmes
Registration of risk management programmes

24Registration may not be transferred

The registration of a risk management programme applies only to the particular operator and premises or place specified in the programme, and may not be transferred to a different operator or premises or place.
Nothing in this section prevents the registration in the name of a new operator, or in relation to new premises or a new place, of a risk management programme in substantially identical terms to those which applied to a former operator or premises.
Nothing in this section prevents the extension of the programme to the business or part of the business of another person in accordance with an approval given under section 17A.
For the purposes of this section, the following circumstances will, except as otherwise specified by the Director-General by notice under section 167(1), be treated as involving a change in the operator of a registered risk management programme, and so require registration of a new risk management programme rather than amendment of an existing registered programme:
a change in the name of a company (but not in a company's shareholding):
a change in the members of a partnership (but not in members' respective shares in the partnership):
the death, bankruptcy, receivership, or liquidation of the operator of the programme.

Notes

Section 24(2A): inserted, on 26 September 2002, by section 15 of the Animal Products Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 29).
Section 24(2A): amended, on 2 March 2018, by section 75(1) of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).
Section 24(3): amended, on 2 March 2018, by section 75(2) of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).