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Animal Products Act 1999

Homekill and recreational catch

66: Object of this Part

You could also call this:

"What this part of the law is about: keeping homekill and recreational catch separate and safe"

This part of the law is about homekill and recreational catch. You can kill and process your own animals or catch, or have someone else do it for you, as long as it is for your own use and not sold. The law wants to keep homekill and recreational catch separate from other animal products that are sold.

The law says that some people can help you with homekill or recreational catch services. These people must be listed, and they cannot do this work where other animal products are being processed, except for some butchers. If a butcher does both homekill and other animal products, they must have a special plan to manage the risks.

You need to know that butchers who do homekill and other work must follow special rules to keep everything safe. They have to think about the risk factors involved in doing both types of work in the same place. The law was changed on 26 September 2002 by the Animal Products Amendment Act 2002.

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Part 6Homekill and recreational catch

66Object of this Part

  1. The principal objects of this Part are—

  2. to allow for owners of animals and recreational hunters and fishers to kill and process their own animals and recreational catch, or have it done for them by certain identified persons, outside the normal regulatory requirements of this Act, provided that the animal or recreational catch is for their own use or consumption and is not traded:
    1. to ensure that homekill and recreational catch is treated entirely separate from, and cannot be mingled with or traded as, regulated animal products.

      1. In particular, this Part provides for—

      2. the listing of persons who may undertake homekill or recreational catch services on behalf of animal owners or recreational hunters and fishers:
        1. a prohibition on any person undertaking such services at any premises or place where regulated animal products are processed, except in the case of retail butchers who also list as homekill or recreational catch service providers:
          1. dual operator butchers to operate under a risk management programme that specifically recognises and takes account of the risk factors involved in carrying out dual operations at the same premises or place.

            Notes
            • Section 66(2)(c): amended, on , by section 5(10) of the Animal Products Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 29).