Animal Products Act 1999

Offences, penalties, and proceedings - Compliance orders

148: Notification of application

You could also call this:

"Telling people about an application that affects them"

When you apply for a compliance order, the Director-General must tell every person who will be directly affected by the application. You can find more information about when the Director-General does not have to do this in section 151. The Director-General must serve notice of the application within 5 working days after the application is filed in the District Court.

The notice can be served later if the District Court allows it. The Director-General has to follow these rules when you apply for a compliance order under the Animal Products Act 1999. You will know when the notice is served because it will be given to you within the time allowed.

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147: Application for compliance order, or

"Asking a court to make someone follow the animal products rules"

149: Right to be heard, or

"You get to say what you think before a court makes a decision about you."

Part 10Offences, penalties, and proceedings
Compliance orders

148Notification of application

Except as provided in section 151 (which relates to interim compliance orders), the Director-General must serve notice of the application on every person directly affected by the application.
The notice must be served within 5 working days after the date on which the application is filed in the District Court, or within such further time as the District Court may allow.

Notes

Section 148(1): amended, on 1 March 2016, by section 447 of the Food Act 2014 (2014 No 32).
Section 148(2): amended, on 1 March 2017, by section 261 of the District Court Act 2016 (2016 No 49).