Animal Products Act 1999

Homekill and recreational catch

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

You could also call this:

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

If you get an animal product from a place with a registered risk management programme, it is regulated. But if a homekill or recreational catch service provider processes it, the product is no longer regulated and you cannot trade it. This means you cannot sell or buy the product after it has been processed by the service provider.

If the person processing the animal product is a dual operator butcher, the rules are different. They can process the product at their premises under their own risk management programme, and the product remains regulated. This means the product can still be traded, or bought and sold, after the dual operator butcher has processed it.

When a homekill or recreational catch service provider processes an animal product, the product's status changes, unless it is processed by a dual operator butcher, as explained in section 119 of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018.

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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"

73: Director-General to maintain list of homekill and recreational catch service providers, or

"Who can kill or process animals for homekill or recreational catch"

Part 6Homekill and recreational catch

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

If a homekill or recreational catch service provider processes any animal product sourced from operations subject to a registered risk management programme or a regulated control scheme or the Food Act regime (or from premises licensed under the Meat Act 1981), then, unless subsection (2) applies, that product ceases to be regulated animal product, and cannot be traded.
Subsection (1) does not apply to the processing of animal product by a dual operator butcher at the dual operator butcher's premises or place under the dual operator butcher's registered risk management programme for regulated animal products, and in this case the animal product remains regulated animal product that can be traded.

Notes

Section 72(1): amended, on 2 March 2018, by section 119 of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).