Animal Products Act 1999

Officers, powers, etc - Powers of Director-General

84: Privileged statements by Director-General

You could also call this:

"The boss of animal product safety can share important information to keep you safe, and they have special protection when doing so."

The Director-General can publish statements to protect or inform the public about animal materials or products. You might see these statements in advertisements or other places. The Director-General is allowed to share this information to help keep you and others safe.

When the Director-General publishes a statement, it is protected by something called qualified privilege. This means that the Director-General has some protection when sharing this information.

The Director-General gets this protection because they are trying to inform or protect the public, and the information is related to animal materials or products, or is something that is implied in advertisements, as amended by section 129 of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018.

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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."

85: Recall of animal material and animal product, or

"When animal products are not safe, the Director-General can ask you to return them."

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

84Privileged statements by Director-General

The Director-General may from time to time, for the purpose of protecting or informing the public, publish under this section statements relating to any animal material or animal product, or to any matter contained or implied in advertisements, either generally or in any particular advertisement or class or classes of advertisements, relating to any animal material or animal product.
Every statement published under this section is protected by qualified privilege.

Notes

Section 84(1): amended, on 2 March 2018, by section 129 of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).