Agricultural Chemicals Amendment Act 1963
Agricultural Chemicals Amendment Act 1963
Agricultural Chemicals Amendment Act 1963
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Agricultural Chemicals Amendment Act 1963
Public Act |
1963 No 73 |
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Date of assent |
23 October 1963 |
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An Act to amend the Agricultural Chemicals Act 1959
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title
This Act may be cited as the Agricultural Chemicals Amendment Act 1963, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Agricultural Chemicals Act 1959 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Labels
(1)
Section 15 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection (1), the following subsection:
“(1a)
Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, the Board may, in any particular case, direct that the label required by that subsection to be attached to a package shall be printed or branded or otherwise fixed to the package in such a manner as not to be removable therefrom.”
(2)
Section 15 of the principal Act is hereby further amended by adding to subsection (3) the following proviso:
“Provided that the Board may at any time give notice in writing to the proprietor of its intention to withdraw acceptance of the label, and may require the proprietor to amend or modify the label in any respect specified in that behalf by the Board; and, on being satisfied that the requirement has been complied with, the Board shall inform the proprietor in writing that the label has been accepted.”
3 Revocation of registration
Section 20 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection (1), the following subsection:
“(1a)
Without limiting the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, the Board may, by notice in writing addressed to the proprietor, revoke the registration of any agricultural chemical which contains any ingredient in such form or in such quantity as, in the opinion of the Board, is likely to have a detrimental effect on meat, dairy produce, or other produce intended for human consumption that has been exposed to the agricultural chemical, or is likely to prejudice the sale of any such meat or produce in New Zealand or elsewhere.”
This Act is administered in the Department of Agriculture.
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