Animal Products Act 1999

Homekill and recreational catch

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

You could also call this:

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

You cannot do two things at the same place if they are homekill or recreational catch processing and processing or trading regulated animal products for humans or animals to eat. You are processing or trading regulated animal products if you are handling food that needs to be checked for safety. Regulated animal products are things like meat that people eat.

There are some exceptions to this rule, like if you are a retail butcher following the rules in section 71. You can also prepare and serve recreational catch as a meal if you are in the business of providing meals with regulated animal products. This applies to people who run game estates and provide meals to hunters and their groups. Some game estate operators can also do homekill or recreational catch services for their clients or for animals they own.

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69: Homekill and recreational catch service providers, or

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

71: Requirements for dual operator butchers, or

"Rules for butchers who sell meat and also do homekill or recreational catch processing at the same place"

Part 6Homekill and recreational catch

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

Except as provided in subsection (2), no person may carry out at the same premises or place both—
homekill or recreational catch processing operations; and
the processing of, or trade in, any regulated animal product for human or animal consumption.

Subsection (1) does not apply to—
retail butchers acting in accordance with section 71; or
persons who are in the business of providing meals containing or consisting of regulated animal product, to the extent only that those persons also prepare and serve recreational catch as a meal to its catcher and members of the catcher's party; or
game estate operators who are in the business of providing meals containing or consisting of regulated product to client hunters and their parties, to the extent that they also prepare and serve a client hunter's recreational catch as a meal to the client hunter and members of the client hunter's party; or
listed game estate operators who are also listed homekill or recreational catch service providers, to the extent that they perform homekill or recreational catch services—
1. to client hunters in respect of animals taken by the client hunters; or
2. in respect of animals owned by the game estate operator that are to be processed and consumed by the game estate operator (including the operator's family, household, or employees).

Notes

Section 70: substituted, on 26 September 2002, by section 33 of the Animal Products Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 29).