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Animal Products Act 1999

Offences, penalties, and proceedings - Offences

129: Presenting non-complying animal material for processing

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"Don't sell or process animal products that don't meet the rules"

If you know that animal material will be processed for human or animal consumption, you must not present it for sale or processing if it does not meet the requirements of Parts 2 to 4. You will be presumed to have known this if you are charged with an offence. If you are found guilty, you can be fined - a company can be fined up to $100,000 and an individual can be fined up to $20,000.

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Part 10Offences, penalties, and proceedings
Offences

129Presenting non-complying animal material for processing

  1. A person commits an offence against this Act who, knowing that the animal material is or is likely to be processed for human or animal consumption, presents for sale or processing (whether directly or by an agent) any animal material that fails to comply with any requirement of Parts 2 to 4 that applies to it.

  2. Where in any proceedings for an offence against this section knowledge on the part of the defendant is an essential element of the offence with which the defendant is charged, that knowledge is to be presumed until the contrary is proved.

  3. A person who commits an offence under this section is liable on conviction—

  4. in the case of a body corporate, to a fine not exceeding $100,000:
    1. in the case of an individual, to a fine not exceeding $20,000.

      Notes
      • Section 129(1): amended, on , by section 42 of the Animal Products Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 29).
      • Section 129(3): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).