Animal Products Act 1999

Risk management programmes - Registration of risk management programmes

26A: Director-General may require amendment to improve clarity of registered risk management programme

You could also call this:

"The boss can ask you to make your safety plan clearer so others can understand it easily."

The Director-General can ask you to change your risk management programme if they think it is not clear. This is so the people who need to understand it, like those mentioned in section 22(1)(a)(iii), can easily comprehend it. You will have to make the changes the Director-General asks for within six months of getting the request.

If you do not make the changes, the Director-General can stop your operations under the programme, as outlined in section 27. The Director-General can also remove your programme from the register, following the process in section 28. You must amend your programme to meet the Director-General's requirements.

The Director-General has the power to make these decisions to ensure your risk management programme is clear and easy to understand.

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26: Notification of minor amendments to risk management programmes, or

"Telling the Director-General about small changes to your animal product risk management plan"

27: Suspension of operations under registered programme, or

"Stopping animal product operations if they're not safe or don't meet the rules"

Part 2Risk management programmes
Registration of risk management programmes

26ADirector-General may require amendment to improve clarity of registered risk management programme

If the Director-General considers that a registered risk management programme is not clear enough to be readily understood by the persons referred to in section 22(1)(a)(iii), the Director-General may require the operator to amend the programme.
The operator must amend the programme to meet the Director-General’s requirements under subsection (1) within 6 months after the date the requirement is received.
If the operator fails to do so, the Director-General may—
suspend operations under the programme in accordance with section 27; or
remove the programme from the register in accordance with section 28.

Notes

Section 26A: inserted, on 2 March 2018, by section 78 of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).