Animal Products Act 1999

Export of animal material and products

49: Registration of exporters of non-edible, etc, material or products may be required by Order in Council

You could also call this:

"Some exporters of non-food animal products might need to register with the government."

The Governor-General can make a rule that says some exporters of animal material or products must register. This rule is made on the recommendation of the Minister. You might need to register if you export certain types of animal material or products that are not food. You can find out what types of material or products are included by looking at what is not described in section 48(2)(a) or (b). The rule can say what types of material or products need to be registered, and this can be based on things like what the material or product is, where it is going, or how it is made.

The Minister will only recommend making this rule if they think it is necessary to protect human or animal health, or to help New Zealand exports. The rule can also be made to help New Zealand products get into other countries, or to protect the reputation of New Zealand exports. If a rule is made, it is a type of law called secondary legislation, and you can learn more about this by looking at Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

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48: Exporters of animal products for human or animal consumption, and certain other animal material and products, must be registered, or

"People sending animal food overseas from New Zealand must register first."

50: Director-General may exempt certain consignments, animal material or animal products, or persons, or

"The boss of animal products can let some animal things or people not follow all the rules."

Part 5Export of animal material and products

49Registration of exporters of non-edible, etc, material or products may be required by Order in Council

The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister, require any 1 or more classes of exporter of animal material or products, being animal material or products of a kind not described in section 48(2)(a) or (b), to register as exporters under this Part in respect of such animal material or products as may be specified in the order.
Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the animal material or products to which the order relates may be defined by reference to—
the class or description of animal material or product exported or to be exported; or
the intended purpose or destination of the animal material or product exported or to be exported; or
the class or description of operations or processes carried out in relation to the animal material or product exported or to be exported; or
the class or description of premises or place, or the area, in which operations or processes were carried out in relation to the animal material or product exported or to be exported; or
any combination of the above.

The Minister may not recommend the making of an order under this section unless satisfied that the order is necessary or desirable—
in the interests of protecting the health of humans or animals, or otherwise to ensure the fitness for intended purpose of the animal product concerned; or
for the purpose of facilitating access to overseas markets; or
to protect the integrity or reputation of New Zealand exports of animal material and products.

An order under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

Notes

Section 49: replaced, on 2 March 2018, by section 100 of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).
Section 49(4): inserted, on 28 October 2021, by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).