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Animal Products Act 1999

Miscellaneous provisions - Consultation, notification, etc

165: Service of individual notices, etc, that are not secondary legislation

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"How to give official notices to important people in the animal products industry"

When you need to give a notice or document to the Minister, the Director-General, an animal product officer, or an official assessor, you can deliver it to an animal product officer or official assessor at a Ministry office. You can deliver it in person, by post, or by electronic means that the Director-General accepts. The Ministry office must be an appropriate one.

If you need to tell someone about something, you can give them written notice in person, by post, or by facsimile or electronic means that they accept. You can send the notice to their address or electronic address, if they have notified you of it under this Act. If you do not have their address, you can send it to their last known business or residential address.

If a solicitor says they are allowed to accept a notice or document on behalf of someone, you can give the document to the solicitor. The solicitor must sign a memorandum saying they accept the document on behalf of that person. If you post a notice or document to someone, they are treated as having received it no later than 7 days after you posted it, unless they can prove they did not receive it due to no fault of their own.

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Part 11Miscellaneous provisions
Consultation, notification, etc

165Service of individual notices, etc, that are not secondary legislation

  1. Where under any of the provisions of this Act any notice or other document or information is to be served on or supplied to the Minister, the Director-General, an animal product officer, or an official assessor, it may be delivered, whether personally, by post, or by electronic means acceptable to the Director-General, to an animal product officer or official assessor at an appropriate office of the Ministry.

  2. Where under any of the provisions of this Act any person is to be notified of any matter, written notice of that matter may be given or supplied to the person either personally or by post or facsimile addressed to that person, or by electronic means acceptable to the person, at—

  3. the person's address or electronic address as notified under this Act, in the case of an operator of a registered risk management programme, or a registered exporter or a listed homekill or recreational catch service provider; or
    1. the person's last known business or residential address, in any other case.

      1. Where a solicitor represents that the solicitor is authorised to accept any notice or document on behalf of any person, it is sufficient notification to deliver the document to the solicitor if the solicitor signs a memorandum stating that he or she accepts the document on behalf of that person.

      2. Where any notice or other document or information is posted to any person (whether physically or by electronic means), it will be treated as having been received by that person not later than 7 days after the date on which it was posted, unless the person proves that, otherwise than through fault on the person's part, it was not so received.

      Notes
      • Section 165 heading: amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).