Animal Welfare Act 1999

Miscellaneous provisions - Consolidation of secondary legislation or published instruments

184A: Certain secondary legislation or published instruments may be consolidated

You could also call this:

"Important animal welfare rules can be combined or updated by the Minister or Director-General."

The Minister, Director-General, or Minister of Conservation can change some laws or instruments at any time. They can do this if they made the laws or instruments, or if they can make them under the Animal Welfare Act. You can find more information about what laws or instruments they can make in the Legislation Act 2019.

The Minister or Director-General can also change some instruments that they made under the Animal Welfare Act. These instruments are not laws, but they are still important. They can revoke old instruments and make new ones that have the same effect, or they can add new parts to the instruments, as explained in section 48 of the Legislation Act 2019.

If an instrument is revoked, it still applies to things that happened before it was revoked. The person who makes the instrument, called the maker, must follow the rules for making new instruments, as defined in section 5 of the Legislation Act 2019. The maker can make new instruments that have the same effect as the old ones, or they can make new instruments with new effects.

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Part 9Miscellaneous provisions
Consolidation of secondary legislation or published instruments

184ACertain secondary legislation or published instruments may be consolidated

  1. The Minister, the Director-General, or the Minister of Conservation (the maker) may at any time apply this section to any secondary legislation that—

  2. the maker has made, or may make, under a provision of this Act, or of regulations made under this Act, by satisfying the same requirements for publishing the secondary legislation; and
    1. is not drafted by the PCO (see section 67 of the Legislation Act 2019).
      1. The Minister or the Director-General (the maker) may at any time apply this section to any instruments that—

      2. the maker has made, or may make, under any provisions of this Act, or of regulations made under this Act, by satisfying the same requirements for publishing the instruments; and
        1. are not secondary legislation.
          1. The powers of the maker to amend or replace the specific instruments (whether given by a specific empowering provision, section 48 of the Legislation Act 2019, or otherwise) authorise the maker to—

          2. revoke any specific instruments that have been made (a revoked instrument); and
            1. make an instrument under any of the specific empowering provisions (the new instrument) that—
              1. has the same effect that all or part of the revoked instrument or instruments had immediately before being revoked; and
                1. otherwise has any further effect (if any) authorised by the specific empowering provisions (the new or amended parts).
                2. For each part of the new instrument (the replacement part) that has the same effect as part of a revoked instrument (the revoked part),—

                3. the replacement part must be treated as being made under the specific empowering provision under which the revoked part was made; and
                  1. any requirements for making the replacement part or for revoking the revoked part, other than the requirements for publication, must be treated as being satisfied to the extent that the requirements for making the revoked part were satisfied when it was made.
                    1. To avoid doubt,—

                    2. the new or amended parts of the new instrument (if any) are made under the relevant specific empowering provisions; and
                      1. any requirements of the relevant specific empowering provisions must be satisfied in making those parts.
                        1. A revoked instrument continues to have effect, as if it had not been revoked, in relation to any matter in a period to which the revoked instrument applied.

                        2. In this section,—

                          instrument has the meaning given in section 5 of the Legislation Act 2019

                            maker, in relation to an instrument, means the person empowered to make it, as defined by subsection (1) or (2)

                              specific empowering provisions means the provisions of this Act, or of regulations, that—

                              1. empower the making of the specific instruments; and
                                1. are referred to in the subsection under which the maker applies this section to the specific instruments

                                  specific instruments means the 1 or more instruments to which the maker applies this section, whether the instruments—

                                  1. have been made (and are to be revoked); or
                                    1. are able to be made.

                                    Notes
                                    • Section 184A: inserted, on , by section 9 of the Statutes Amendment Act 2022 (2022 No 75).