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Animal Products Act 1999

Miscellaneous provisions - Regulations, notices, etc

166A: Scope of regulations

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Regulations made under the Animal Products Act can do several things. They can let the Minister or Director-General impose rules or give orders. They can also let an animal product officer or official assessor impose rules or give directions. You can find more information about secondary legislation in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. Regulations can apply to everyone or just to certain people, places, or things, and they can be the same for all cases or different for different cases.

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Part 11Miscellaneous provisions
Regulations, notices, etc

166AScope of regulations

  1. Regulations made under this Act may do any or all of the following:

  2. authorise the Minister or Director-General to—
    1. impose requirements, conditions, restrictions, or prohibitions:
      1. issue approvals, directions, instructions, or orders:
      2. authorise an animal product officer or official assessor to—
        1. impose requirements, conditions, restrictions, or prohibitions:
          1. issue directions or instructions:
          2. exempt, or authorise the Minister or Director-General to exempt, any animal material, animal product, person, place, business, process, operation, activity, or other matter or thing from any provision of the regulations:
            1. authorise the Minister, the Director-General, or an animal product officer to decide a matter:
              1. confer any other discretion on the Minister, the Director-General, or an animal product officer.

                1. The regulations may—

                2. apply generally, or in relation to any specified, or specified class of, animal materials, animal products, persons, places, businesses, processes, operations, activities, or other matters or things:
                  1. make the same provision for all cases or different provisions for different cases or classes of case.

                    1. If a provision of this Act permits regulations to prescribe requirements, the regulations may prescribe requirements, specifications, criteria, procedures, conditions, or other matters of a similar kind.

                    2. If regulations under this Act authorise a person to exercise any of the powers described in subsection (1)—

                    3. the instrument by which the power is exercised is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements), unless the instrument applies only to 1 or more named persons; and
                      1. the regulations must contain a statement to that effect.

                        Notes
                        • Section 166A: inserted, on , by section 164 of the Food Safety Law Reform Act 2018 (2018 No 3).
                        • Section 166A(4): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
                        • Section 166A(4): amended, on , by regulation 15 of the Legislation Act (Amendments to Legislation) Regulations 2021 (LI 2021/247).