Animal Products Act 1999

Homekill and recreational catch

71: Requirements for dual operator butchers

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

If you are a retail butcher, you can do both regulated animal product operations and homekill or recreational catch operations at the same place. You must be listed as a homekill or recreational catch service provider. You cannot kill homekill or recreational catch animals where regulated animal products are processed or traded. You must process and store regulated animal products separately from homekill or recreational catch animal material or products. You must operate under a risk management programme for all regulated animal products, as stated in section 32. Your risk management programme must identify the risks of having homekill or recreational catch processed with regulated animal products, and the measures to keep them separate, and to prevent homekill and recreational catch products from being exported, except as provided in section 50.

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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."

72: Product processed by homekill or recreational catch service provider ceases to be regulated animal product, or

"Food from a homekill or recreational catch service is no longer regulated and can't be sold."

Part 6Homekill and recreational catch

71Requirements for dual operator butchers

A retail butcher may carry out, at the same premises or place, both regulated animal product operations or trade and homekill or recreational catch operations, but only subject to the following conditions:
the retail butcher must be listed as a homekill or recreational catch service provider:
no animal that is homekill or recreational catch may be killed on or at any premises or place where regulated animal product is processed or traded:
regulated animal product must be processed and stored separately from any homekill or recreational catch animal material or product:
the dual operator butcher must operate under a risk management programme in respect of all regulated animal products at the premises or place (and accordingly is deemed to have made an election under section 32 in respect of those animal products):
in addition to any other matters required under Part 2, the risk management programme of the dual operator butcher must identify and specify the following matters:
1. the unique risk factors inherent in having homekill or recreational catch processed in a place or premises where regulated animal products are also processed or traded:
2. the measures to be taken to ensure that homekill and recreational catch products are not confused with regulated animal products, and do not enter the dual operator's normal retail butcher trade or other trade in regulated animal products for human or animal consumption:
3. the measures to be taken to ensure that no product from the business, whether homekill, recreational catch, or regulated animal product for human or animal consumption, is exported, whether by the service provider or any other person (otherwise than as specifically provided by section 50 in the case of the person whose homekill or recreational catch it was).

For the avoidance of doubt, homekill or recreational catch product may not be treated as regulated animal product merely because it is processed at any premises or place subject to a risk management programme as required by subsection (1)(c) and (d).
For the avoidance of doubt, subsection (1)(c) does not prevent a person from operating under the Food Act regime in respect of food that is not animal product.

Notes

Section 71(1)(ba): inserted, on 26 September 2002, by section 34 of the Animal Products Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 29).
Section 71(1)(c): replaced, on 2 March 2018, by section 118(1) of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).
Section 71(1)(d)(i): amended, on 26 September 2002, by section 5(10) of the Animal Products Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 29).
Section 71(3): inserted, on 2 March 2018, by section 118(2) of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).