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Animal Products Act 1999

Officers, powers, etc - Powers of animal product officers

91: Power to require presentation of live animals

You could also call this:

"Animal owners must show their animals to inspectors if asked, and follow their instructions."

If you own or are in control of live animals, an animal product officer can ask you to show them the animals. They will send you a written notice telling you how to present the animals so they can be examined, tested, or identified. The officer can also tell you to keep the animals separate or give them treatment.

The officer can also give you directions on what to do with the animals, such as holding or isolating them. If you do not follow the instructions in the written notice, the officer can take control of the animals to examine, test, or identify them.

You will have to pay for presenting the animals as required by the written notice, and if the officer has to take control of the animals, you may also have to pay for the costs they incur in doing so.

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Part 7Officers, powers, etc
Powers of animal product officers

91Power to require presentation of live animals

  1. An animal product officer may for the purposes of this Act—

  2. by written notice require the owner or person in control of live animals to present those animals in a manner suitable for examination, testing, sampling, and identification:
    1. direct the owner or person in control of the animals to hold, isolate, separate, or treat any or all of the animals.

      1. If the owner or person in control fails to present the animals as required by a written notice under subsection (1)(a), the officer may capture, collect, muster, extract, harvest, or pen the animals for the relevant purpose.

      2. The presentation of any animal required by a written notice under subsection (1)(a) is at the cost of the person to whom the notice was addressed, and any expenses reasonably incurred by the officer in the exercise of his or her powers under subsection (2) may be recovered from that person.