New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) Nothing in any enactment specified in this section affects the performance or exercise of any power, function, or duty conferred by Part 7.
(2) Except—
(a) to the extent provided in subsections (1), (5), and (6) and section 7A; and
(b) to the extent that those enactments are expressly amended by section 168(1),—
this Act must not be construed so as to affect or derogate in any way from the provisions of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act 1941, the Forests Act 1949, the Wildlife Act 1953, the Health Act 1956, the Animal Welfare Act 1999, the Wild Animal Control Act 1977, the Reserves Act 1977, the National Parks Act 1980, the Fisheries Act 1983, the Conservation Act 1987, the Trade in Endangered Species Act 1989, or the Resource Management Act 1991.
(3) This Act must not be construed so as to affect or derogate in any way from the provisions of the Customs and Excise Act 1996 and, in particular, the provisions of this Act do not affect the obligations of any person under the Customs and Excise Act 1996 in relation to goods.
(4) The provisions of this Act in so far as they relate to risk goods must not be construed to take precedence over the powers provided under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 in relation to any controlled drug (as defined in section 2(1) of that Act).
(5) The provisions of the Wild Animal Control Act 1977 do not apply to prevent or inhibit the exercise of any powers under the Biosecurity Act 1993 on any land (other than land administered under the Acts listed in Schedule 1 of the Conservation Act 1987) when those powers are used in respect of—
(a) a pest; or
(b) an unwanted organism—
that may be transmitted by any animal to which the Wild Animal Control Act 1977 applies.
(6) The provisions of the Wildlife Act 1953 (including any regulations made under that Act)—
(a) do not apply to prevent or inhibit the exercise or performance of any powers, functions, or duties under this Act when those powers, functions, or duties are exercised or performed in respect of an unwanted organism; and
(b) do not allow or authorise the contravention of any provision of this Act in respect of wildlife that is also an unwanted organism.
Section 7: substituted, on 26 November 1997, by section 4 of the Biosecurity Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 89).
Section 7(2): amended, on 1 January 2000, by section 194 of the Animal Welfare Act 1999 (1999 No 142).
Section 7(2)(a): amended, on 8 July 2003, by section 4(1) of the Biosecurity Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 38).
Section 7(5): amended, on 8 July 2003, by section 4(2) of the Biosecurity Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 38).
Section 7(6): added, on 8 July 2003, by section 4(3) of the Biosecurity Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 38).
