New Zealand Legislation: Acts

8D Effect of exemption

• (1) Where an exemption is in force in respect of any premises or vehicle, nothing in any of Parts 1 to 17 of the Food Hygiene Regulations 1974 shall apply in respect of those premises or, as the case may be, that vehicle.

  (2) The fact that an exemption is in force in respect of any premises or vehicle does not affect the powers of a designated officer under regulation 82 of the Food Hygiene Regulations 1974 in respect of those premises or, as the case may be, that vehicle.

  Part 1A, comprising sections 8A to 8ZZG, was inserted, as from 1 July 1997, by section 3 Food Amendment Act (No 2) 1996 (1996 No 97).

  Subsection (2) was amended, as from 1 July 2002, by Schedule 1 Food Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 26), by substituting the words “designated officer” with the words “Medical Officer of Health”. See sections 10 to 14 of that Act as to transitional matters.