Animal Products Act 1999

Risk management programmes - Registration of risk management programmes

29: Surrender of registration

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"How to cancel your animal product registration if you stop operating"

If you have a registered risk management programme, you can surrender your registration by writing to the Director-General. You might need to do this if you stop operating as a producer or processor of animal material or animal products. When you stop operating, you must tell the Director-General in writing within 30 days.

You also need to give the Director-General your notice of registration and tell your verifying agency that you have stopped operating. At the same time, you must tell the Director-General how you plan to deal with any remaining animal material or products. The Director-General can approve your plan, but they can also use their powers under section 82 if needed.

When the Director-General is told that you want to surrender your registration, they must record it and the surrender takes effect from the date stated in the register. You will be recorded as having surrendered your registration.

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28A: Removal of business or part of business from coverage of wider risk management programme, or

"Stopping a business from being part of an animal safety plan"

30: Risk management programme in conflict with regulations, notices, or orders, or

"What to do if your risk management programme disagrees with the rules"

Part 2Risk management programmes
Registration of risk management programmes

29Surrender of registration

The operator of a registered risk management programme may surrender registration of the programme by notice in writing to the Director-General.
Where the operator or animal product business concerned ceases to operate as a producer or processor of animal material or animal product, that operator (or, where appropriate, the liquidator, receiver, executor, or other successor in title of the operator) must, within 30 days of so ceasing,—
notify the Director-General in writing of that fact; and
surrender the notice of registration to the Director-General; and
notify the operator’s verifying agency of that fact.

At the same time as notification under subsection (1) or subsection (2), the operator or other relevant person must also notify the Director-General of how it is proposed to deal with any remaining animal material or product covered by the risk management programme.
The Director-General may approve or agree to any such proposal, but may also, if appropriate, exercise any of his or her powers under section 82.
On being notified of a surrender under this section,—
the Director-General must record the surrender on the register of risk management programmes; and
the surrender takes effect from the date stated in the register.

Notes

Section 29(1): amended, on 2 March 2018, by section 82(1) of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).
Section 29(2)(c): amended, on 2 March 2018, by section 82(2) of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).
Section 29(2)(c): amended, on 26 September 2002, by section 5(10) of the Animal Products Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 29).