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Animal Products Act 1999

Homekill and recreational catch

68: Processing of recreational catch

You could also call this:

"Rules for handling animals you hunt or catch for fun"

If you hunt or harvest an animal for recreational purposes, you can kill or process the animal yourself on your own property. You can also get a listed homekill or recreational catch service provider to kill or process the animal for you, as long as it is on their premises or your property, and you follow the rules in Parts 2 to 4. The animal must be for your own use or consumption, or for your family or household, and not for selling.

You can use the animal as you like, as long as you do not sell the edible parts. If you want to sell some parts of the animal, they must not be for human or animal consumption, or you must sell them to a renderer who follows the rules set by the Director-General under section 167(1).

If you have a customary catch that is allowed under the Fisheries Act 1996, it is treated the same as recreational catch, as long as you use it for the purpose it was allowed for.

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Part 6Homekill and recreational catch

68Processing of recreational catch

  1. Nothing in this Act prevents a person who has hunted or harvested an animal as recreational catch from—

  2. killing or processing the animal himself or herself, on his or her own property or at or near the place where the animal was hunted or harvested; or
    1. having the animal killed or processed, otherwise than in accordance with Parts 2 to 4, by a listed homekill or recreational catch service provider, on the service provider's premises or place or on the catcher's property or at or near the place where the animal was hunted or harvested,—
        1. so long as the recreational catch product is for the use or consumption of the catcher (including members of the catcher's party or family or household), and not for trade; and Parts 2 to 4 do not apply to any such recreational catch.

      1. For the purposes of subsection (1), recreational catch product will be treated as being for the use or consumption of the catcher, and not for trade, if—

      2. the edible part of the product is for the use or consumption of the catcher (or members of the catcher's party or family or household); and
        1. the only parts of the recreational catch product that are traded—
          1. are not for human or animal consumption; or
            1. are sold or disposed of to a renderer in accordance with any conditions imposed by the Director-General by notice under section 167(1).

            2. For the purposes of this Act, customary catch that is duly authorised under the Fisheries Act 1996 is to be treated as recreational catch that complies with the requirements of this section, so long as it is used for the purposes for which such catch is authorised.

            Notes
            • Section 68(2)(b): substituted, on , by section 31 of the Animal Products Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 29).
            • Section 68(2)(b)(ii): amended, on , by section 116 of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).