Animal Products Act 1999

Miscellaneous provisions - Regulations, notices, etc

168: Incorporation of material by reference into regulations, notices, and orders

You could also call this:

"Rules can include information from other sources, like copying and pasting, to help make new laws."

When rules are made under the Animal Products Act 1999, they can include information from other sources. You can think of this as copying and pasting information from one place into another. This information can be from New Zealand or other countries, and it can be about things like standards or recommended practices.

The people making these rules can use all or part of this information, and they can also make some changes to it. Once this information is included in the rules, it is considered part of those rules. If the information is from a standard work of reference, like the Codex Alimentarius, any updates to that work are automatically included in the rules.

If any changes are made to the included information, those changes do not take effect until the Director-General says they do, by announcing it in the Gazette. The Director-General decides what is a standard work of reference, which is a work that is widely accepted as a standard in its field, such as the Codex Alimentarius, which can be found through the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018.

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167B: Certain secondary legislation or published instruments may be consolidated, or

"The government can update or replace some laws and rules related to animal products at any time."

168A: Availability and proof of material incorporated by reference, or

"Getting a copy of extra information mentioned in a document"

Part 11Miscellaneous provisions
Regulations, notices, etc

168Incorporation of material by reference into regulations, notices, and orders

The following material may be incorporated by reference into any regulations, notice, or order (all referred to in this section as instruments) made or given under this Act:
standards, requirements, or recommended practices published by or on behalf of any body or person in New Zealand or in any other country:
standards, requirements, or recommended practices of international or national organisations:
standards, requirements, or recommended practices of any country or jurisdiction:
any other material that, in the opinion of the Minister (or, as appropriate, the Director-General), is too large or impractical to be printed as part of the instrument concerned.

Any such material may be incorporated in an instrument in whole or in part, and either unmodified or with such additions, omissions, or variations as are specified in the instrument.
Any such material so incorporated by reference in an instrument is to be treated for all purposes as forming part of that instrument.
Every reference in an instrument to the current edition of any standard work of reference is, unless the instrument otherwise specifies, to be construed at any particular time as the latest edition of that work available at that time, together with any amendments, additions, and deletions made to or from it up to that time.
If any amendment to material incorporated by reference under this section (other than to any standard work of reference) is made, that amendment does not take effect until the date specified for that purpose by the Director-General by notification in the Gazette.
A standard work of reference is a work of reference that the Director-General considers is accepted internationally or by an industry as a standard one to refer to on its subject matter. An example is the Codex Alimentarius.

Notes

Section 168(6): replaced, on 2 March 2018, by section 165 of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).