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Animal Products Act 1999

Export of animal material and products - Registration of exporters

52: Director-General to maintain register of exporters

You could also call this:

"Government keeps a list of approved animal product exporters"

The Director-General has to keep a register of people who are allowed to export animal material or products. You can think of the register like a list of people who have permission to send certain animal products to other countries. The purpose of the register is to let the public know who is allowed to export these products, and to help the Director-General make sure exporters follow the rules.

The Director-General also has to keep the register open for you to look at, without charging you a fee, during reasonable hours at their office. If you want a copy of the register, you can ask for one and pay a reasonable charge for it. The register can be kept in different ways, such as on a computer or in a book, as long as the information can be easily accessed and used.

The Director-General can use electronic devices to store and access the information in the register, which means you might be able to look at it online or by using a special computer system. The Director-General has to make sure the register is available for you to inspect, and that you can get a copy of it if you need one, by visiting their office or using electronic means, including the Animal Products Amendment Act 2005 which is available on the legislation website.

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Part 5Export of animal material and products
Registration of exporters

52Director-General to maintain register of exporters

  1. The Director-General must keep and maintain a register of exporters that records persons authorised under this Part to export animal material or products to which this Part applies.

  2. The purpose of the register is—

  3. to enable members of the public to know who is authorised under this Part to export animal material and products; and
    1. to facilitate the ability of the Director-General to—
      1. advise exporters of export requirements; and
        1. safeguard official assurances for entry of animal material and products into overseas markets, including in emergency situations; and
        2. to facilitate the compliance, audit, and other supporting and administrative functions of the Ministry under this Act.

          1. The Director-General must—

          2. keep the register open for public inspection, without fee, during reasonable hours at the head office of the Ministry and at such other places as the Director-General determines as necessary or appropriate; and
            1. supply to any person copies of all or part of the register on request and payment of a reasonable charge for the production of the copy.

              1. The register may be kept in such manner as the Director-General thinks fit, including, either wholly or partly, by means of a device or facility—

              2. that records or stores information electronically or by other means; and
                1. that permits the information so recorded to be readily inspected or reproduced in usable form; and
                  1. that permits the information in the register to be accessed by electronic means, including (without limitation) by means of remote logon access.

                    Notes
                    • Section 52(2)(b)(i): substituted, on , by section 16 of the Animal Products Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 26).