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Animal Welfare Act 1999

Animal exports

53: Enforcement

You could also call this:

"Ensuring animals are treated well when being exported from New Zealand"

If you are getting an animal ready to export from New Zealand, you must follow the rules. You need an animal welfare export certificate to load the animal onto a ship or aircraft. If you do not have this certificate, an inspector or authorised person can seize the animal and take it somewhere else. They can take steps to prevent the animal from suffering, such as giving it food or water. The inspector or authorised person can also tell you what to do to help the animal. The inspector or authorised person can keep the animal at a place of their choice until a decision is made about what to do with it, this could be under section 172.

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Part 3Animal exports

53Enforcement

  1. Where any animal that is to be exported from New Zealand to another country is being prepared for loading on to a ship or aircraft or is loaded on to a ship or aircraft other than under the authority, and in accordance with the terms, of an animal welfare export certificate, an inspector or other person authorised by the Director-General may—

  2. seize the animals and convey them to another place:
    1. take any other steps that the inspector or authorised person considers necessary or desirable to prevent or mitigate any suffering of the animal:
      1. direct the owner or person in charge of the animal to take steps to prevent or mitigate any suffering of the animal.

        1. The inspector or authorised person may keep the animal at a place chosen by the inspector or authorised person until—

        2. the animal is, under section 172, forfeited to the Crown or to an approved organisation; or
          1. a District Court Judge orders that the animal be delivered to the owner of the animal or to the person charged with the offence against this Act.