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Animal Products Act 1999

Risk management programmes - Relationship between Food Act regime and risk management programmes

31: Object of sections 32 to 34A

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"What sections 32 to 34A are about: making it easier to follow food safety laws"

The object of sections 32 to 34A is to recognise that food control plans and risk management programmes are similar. This helps to minimise problems that can occur when two separate laws are applied. You can operate under one law or the other, depending on what you need. You can choose to operate solely under a risk management programme if you are a secondary processor of an animal product that is a food. You can also register your food control plan as a risk management programme, and switch between the two if you need to, this is explained in section 32 and section 34.

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Part 2Risk management programmes
Relationship between Food Act regime and risk management programmes

31Object of sections 32 to 34A

  1. The object of sections 32 to 34A is to recognise the general equivalence of food control plans and risk management programmes, and to minimise the problems of overlap of 2 separate legislative regimes, by—

  2. allowing, in section 32, a secondary processor of an animal product which is a food to elect to operate solely under a risk management programme and this Act, rather than under the equivalent Food Act regime (particularly where the food is for export, and may require official assurances); and
    1. providing, in section 34, for the registration of food control plans as risk management programmes, and allowing switching between plans and programmes in the case of persons who wish to operate principally under one regime, but may also need or wish to operate from time to time under the other regime in respect of all or part of their operations.

      Notes
      • Section 31 heading: amended, on , by section 84(1) of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).
      • Section 31: amended, on , by section 84(2) of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).
      • Section 31: amended, on , by section 447 of the Food Act 2014 (2014 No 32).
      • Section 31: amended, on , by section 21 of the Animal Products Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 29).
      • Section 31(b): amended, on , by section 447 of the Food Act 2014 (2014 No 32).