Animal Products Act 1999

Officers, powers, etc - Powers of Director-General

82: Power to direct disposal, etc, of animal material or product in certain circumstances

You could also call this:

"What to do with animal products when the Director-General gives you instructions"

The Director-General has the power to tell you what to do with animal material or products in certain situations. You might be told what to do if the Director-General stops a risk management programme as stated in section 27, section 28, or section 29, or if they stop an exporter from sending products overseas as stated in section 58. The Director-General can give you directions on how to handle the animal material or products.

The Director-General can tell you to do things like store, transport, or dispose of the animal material or products. If you do not follow the directions, the Director-General can do these things themselves and you might have to pay for the costs. You will have to pay for the costs if you were told what to do but did not do it.

This text is automatically generated. It might be out of date or be missing some parts. Find out more about how we do this.

This page was last updated on 5 June 2025

View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM35214.

81B: Director-General may impose movement and related controls, or

"The government can control animal movements to keep people and animals safe"

83: Director-General may give statements as to New Zealand animal product standard, or

"The boss of animal product safety can give you a certificate about a product meeting New Zealand standards if you ask and pay."

Part 7Officers, powers, etc
Powers of Director-General

82Power to direct disposal, etc, of animal material or product in certain circumstances

This section applies in relation to a situation where the Director-General—
suspends operations under a registered risk management programme in accordance with section 27; or
deregisters a risk management programme in accordance with section 28; or
accepts a surrender of registration under section 29, in circumstances where no agreement has been reached on how it is proposed to deal with any remaining animal material or product covered by the risk management programme; or
suspends export operations of an exporter in accordance with section 58; or
suspends an operation subject to a regulated control scheme, or deregisters or accepts deregistration of an operator or operation that is subject to a regulated control scheme, as is provided for in the scheme.

In a situation to which this section applies, the Director-General may, whether immediately before, at the same time as, or after taking the relevant action referred to in subsection (1),—
give directions to the relevant operator, person in charge (or person who reasonably appears to be in charge), owner of the product or material concerned, or exporter, or any of them, on the handling, storage, further processing, transport, identification, classification, reclassification, verification, condemnation, destruction, or disposal of the animal material or product affected by the deregistration, surrender, or suspension; and
where any such directions are not complied with, undertake the appropriate directed activities himself or herself (through animal product officers or other Ministry officers or employees) in relation to the affected animal material or product.

The Director-General may recover all actual and reasonable costs of any activities undertaken under subsection (2)(b) from the person to whom the direction in question was given under subsection (2)(a) and who failed to comply with the direction.

Notes

Section 82(1)(d): amended, on 1 June 2005, by section 18 of the Animal Products Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 26).
Section 82(1)(e): added, on 1 June 2005, by section 18 of the Animal Products Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 26).
Section 82(1)(e): amended, on 2 March 2018, by section 127 of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).