Animal Products Act 1999

Homekill and recreational catch

69: Homekill and recreational catch service providers

You could also call this:

"Rules for people who kill or process animals for others, like homekill or recreational catch"

If you kill or process animals for reward, you usually need to follow certain rules. You need to have a risk management programme or comply with other requirements. However, some people do not need to do this for homekill or recreational catch.

You do not need a risk management programme if you are listed as a homekill or recreational catch service provider under section 76. You also do not need one if you are in the business of providing meals and you prepare and serve recreational catch as a meal. There may be other people who are exempt, as specified by the regulations or any supplementary notice.

If you are exempt, you can trade or dispose of animal material derived from homekill or recreational catch in certain situations. This includes if the material is not for human or animal consumption, such as skins or hides. You can also sell or dispose of the material to a renderer if you follow any conditions imposed by the Director-General under section 167(1).

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68: Processing of recreational catch, or

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

70: Limitation on regulated animal product and homekill or recreational catch operations being carried out at same premises or place, or

"No homekill or recreational catch at places that sell food for humans or animals."

Part 6Homekill and recreational catch

69Homekill and recreational catch service providers

Despite anything in this Act, but subject to section 70, the following persons may kill or process for reward, for the owner or hunter or harvester of the animal, any animal or animal material that is homekill or recreational catch without needing to have or comply with a risk management programme, or to comply with any other requirement imposed by or under Parts 2 to 4:
persons listed as homekill or recreational catch service providers under section 76:
persons who are in the business of providing meals and who prepare and serve recreational catch as a meal to its catcher and members of the catcher's party:
any other class of persons specified for the purposes of this section by the regulations or any supplementary notice.

Except as provided in section 70, a person listed as a homekill or recreational catch service provider under this Part is exempt from the requirement to operate under a risk management programme in respect of the processing of animal material or products that are homekill or recreational catch; and nothing in Parts 2 to 4 applies in respect of such operations.
Nothing in section 131(2)(c) prevents a person referred to in paragraphs (a) to (c) of subsection (1) from trading or otherwise disposing of animal material derived from the processing of homekill or recreational catch if the animal material—
is skins, hides, horns, antlers, or other material that is not for human or animal consumption; or
is sold or disposed of to a renderer in accordance with any conditions imposed by the Director-General by notice under section 167(1).

Notes

Section 69(1)(c): amended, on 2 March 2018, by section 117(1) of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).
Section 69(3): added, on 26 September 2002, by section 32 of the Animal Products Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 29).
Section 69(3)(b): amended, on 2 March 2018, by section 117(2) of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).