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Animal Products Act 1999

Offences, penalties, and proceedings - Offences

130: Offence to export unless registered

You could also call this:

"You must register before exporting animal products or you might get a big fine."

If you export animal material or products, you must be registered to do so. You commit an offence if you export these products without being registered, unless you have an exemption under section 9 or section 50, or as allowed by the regulations or a supplementary notice, which applies to products covered by Part 5.

If you break this rule, you can be fined: if you are a company, the fine can be up to $300,000, and if you are an individual, the fine can be up to $50,000.

You will only be fined if you are convicted of the offence.

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Part 10Offences, penalties, and proceedings
Offences

130Offence to export unless registered

  1. A person commits an offence against this Act who, being a person who is required to be registered as an exporter in relation to the animal material or product concerned, without being so registered exports any animal material or animal product to which Part 5 applies other than in accordance with an exemption granted under section 9 or section 50 or by the regulations or any supplementary notice.

  2. Repealed

  3. A person who commits an offence against subsection (1) is liable on conviction—

  4. in the case of a body corporate, to a fine not exceeding $300,000:
    1. in the case of an individual, to a fine not exceeding $50,000.

      Notes
      • Section 130(1): amended, on , by section 149 of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).
      • Section 130(2): repealed, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).
      • Section 130(3): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).