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Animal Products Act 1999

Export of animal material and products - Export requirements and official assurances

60B: Exemption from animal product standards where appropriate

You could also call this:

"Some animal products don't have to follow the rules if they're being sent overseas and it's okay with the other country."

The Director-General can exempt some animal products from following the rules if they are being exported from New Zealand. You can find out how the Director-General makes this decision by looking at section 167(1). The Director-General will only do this if they think it is appropriate for the overseas market where the products are going.

The Director-General makes this decision based on what the overseas market requires. The Governor-General can also make regulations that grant exemptions for certain animal products.

The Minister must recommend these regulations and can only do so if they think it is appropriate for the overseas market. If regulations are made, they are considered secondary legislation, and you can learn more about publication requirements by reading Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

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Part 5Export of animal material and products
Export requirements and official assurances

60BExemption from animal product standards where appropriate

  1. The Director-General may, by notice under section 167(1), exempt any 1 or more classes or descriptions of animal material or animal product that is intended for export from New Zealand from the requirements of any animal product standard or supplementary notice.

  2. The Director-General may do so only if satisfied that it is appropriate to do so having regard to the requirements of the relevant overseas market.

  3. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister, make regulations granting exemptions of the kind referred to in subsection (1).

  4. The Minister may not recommend the making of regulations under subsection (3) unless satisfied that it is appropriate to do so having regard to the requirements of the relevant overseas market.

  5. Regulations under subsection (3) are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

Notes
  • Section 60B: replaced, on , by section 108 of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).
  • Section 60B(5): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).