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Animal Products Act 1999

Preliminary provisions

6A: Border information supplied using JBMS must be supplied in approved form and manner

You could also call this:

"When using the Joint Border Management System, give information to the Ministry in the approved way."

When you use a Joint Border Management System to give information to the Ministry, you must do it in a certain way. You have to supply the information in a form and manner that is approved by the Director-General. This approved form and manner is for using the Joint Border Management System and for the time being is generally approved in writing.

The approved form and manner must be available on a website that is free to access. It may also be set out in rules under section 325 of the Customs and Excise Act 2018. You can find the meanings of some words, like "border information" and "JBMS", in section 41A(1) of the Biosecurity Act 1993.

The Ministry has a meaning given in section 41A(1) of the Biosecurity Act 1993 and also in section 4(1) of this Act. You must follow these rules when giving information to the Ministry using the Joint Border Management System. The information you give must be in the approved form and manner.

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6: References to this Act include references to Animal Products (Ancillary and Transitional Provisions) Act 1999, etc, or

"When the law says 'Animal Products Act 1999', it also means another related law called the Animal Products (Ancillary and Transitional Provisions) Act 1999."

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6B: Duty to use JBMS to supply border information, or

"Tell the Ministry about border information using a JBMS or an approved method"

Part 1Preliminary provisions

6ABorder information supplied using JBMS must be supplied in approved form and manner

  1. This section applies to a requirement by or under this Act to supply to the Ministry any border information.

  2. Any person who uses a JBMS (Joint Border Management System) to comply with the requirement (including, without limitation, by supplying the information to the Customs, or to an appointed agency, in accordance with section 41D or 41H of the Biosecurity Act 1993) must supply the information in a form and manner—

  3. for complying with the requirement by using the JBMS; and
    1. for the time being generally approved in writing by the Director-General.

      1. The approved form and manner referred to in subsection (2)—

      2. must be notified via an Internet site that is, so far as practicable, publicly available free of charge; and
        1. may be set out in rules under section 325 of the Customs and Excise Act 2018.

          1. In this section,—

            border information and JBMS have the meanings given or referred to in section 41A(1) of the Biosecurity Act 1993

              Ministry has the meaning given in section 41A(1) of the Biosecurity Act 1993 and also has the meaning given in section 4(1) of this Act.

              Notes
              • Section 6A: inserted, on , by section 16 of the Biosecurity (Border Processing—Trade Single Window) Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 11).
              • Section 6A(2): amended, on , by section 443(3) of the Customs and Excise Act 2018 (2018 No 4).
              • Section 6A(3)(b): replaced, on , by section 443(3) of the Customs and Excise Act 2018 (2018 No 4).
              • Section 6A(4): replaced, on , by section 447 of the Food Act 2014 (2014 No 32).