Biosecurity and Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Legislation Amendment Bill
Hon Tariana Turia, in Committee, to move the following amendment:
Part 2
Clause 10
To omit subclause (2) (line 34 on page 5 to line 3 on page 6) and substitute the following subclause:
Explanatory note
This Supplementary Order Paper amends the Biosecurity and Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Legislation Amendment Bill to ensure that the import decisions for any organism which the Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) has gazetted as a new organism under the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 (HSNO Act), will be appropriately determined by ERMA under the HSNO Act.
This is consistent with the Court of Appeal decision in National Beekeepers’ Association of New Zealand v Chief Executive of MAF which determined that the gazetted new organism P.alvei is to first gain approval for import into New Zealand under the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 before bee products from Australia can be imported.