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Meat Amendment Act 1972

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Short Title

Meaning of “Inspector”

Acquisition of interest in export slaughterhouse

Inspection of fish intended for export, and licensing of premises

Disposition of inspection fees

Meat Amendment Act 1972

Public Act		1972 No 37
Date of assent		20 October 1972

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Meaning of “Inspector”
3	Acquisition of interest in export slaughterhouse
4	Inspection of fish intended for export, and licensing of premises
5	Disposition of inspection fees
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Meat Act 1964

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 Meat Amendment Act 1972, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Meat Act 1964 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Meaning of “Inspector”

Section 2 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding to the definition of the term “Inspector” in subsection (1) the words “and includes the Director of the Meat Division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries:”.

3 Acquisition of interest in export slaughterhouse

Section 73 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:

“(4)

If any licensee or his subsidiary or any company of which the licensee is a subsidiary enters into any transaction for the acquisition of any estate or interest contrary to the provisions of this section, the transaction shall be deemed to be unlawful and shall have no effect.”

4 Inspection of fish intended for export, and licensing of premises

(1)

The principal Act is hereby further amended by repealing section 77, and substituting the following section:

“77

“(1)

Regulations under this Act may—

“(a)

Provide for the inspection under this Act of premises used for the processing or packaging of fish for export and for the marking or certification of any such fish:

“(b)

Prescribe conditions under which premises used for the processing, packaging, handling, or storage of fish intended for export may be licensed for the purposes of this Act, and may restrict or prohibit the export of fish unless the fish has been processed, packaged, handled, and stored in licensed or other specified premises and in accordance with the regulations:

“(c)

Require exporters of fish to be licensed by the Minister:

“(d)

Prescribe conditions under which licences granted under the regulations may be held, renewed, transferred, surrendered, or cancelled:

“(e)

Make such provision with respect to premises licensed under the regulations and to the processing, packaging, handling, and storage of fish in any licensed or other specified premises and to the conveyance of fish to or from any licensed or other specified premises as may be made by regulations made under section 83 of this Act with respect to other premises subject to this Act and to meat processed, packaged, handled, and stored in any such premises and to the conveyance of meat to or from any such premises:

“(f)

Apply to exporters of fish such of the provisions of this Act, with such modifications as the Governor-General thinks fit, as may be prescribed in the regulations.

“(2)

For the purpose of this section, all fish which is taken or received into premises that are licensed under regulations made pursuant to this section shall be deemed to be in those premises for the purpose of being processed or packaged for export.

“(3)

For the purposes of this section—

“‘Fish’ means all species of fish; and includes Crustacea, shellfish, and echinoderms; and also includes fish products:

“‘Fish products’ includes any article of human food and any article intended for or capable of being used as human food, being, in each case, an article prepared or processed in whole or in substantial and known quantities from any part of any fish.”

(2)

The following enactments are hereby consequentially repealed:

(a)

Section 2 of the Meat Amendment Act 1966:

(b)

Section 13 of the Meat Amendment Act 1968.

5 Disposition of inspection fees

The principal Act is hereby further amended by inserting, after section 84, the following section:

“84a

“(1)

Such proportion of the fees received pursuant to regulations under this Act in respect of the inspection of stock or of meat derived from stock as the Minister from time to time approves shall be paid to a separate account within the Trust Account of the Public Account.

“(2)

There may from time to time be paid from the said separate account to Federated Farmers of New Zealand Incorporated such amounts as the Minister approves for the purpose of assisting that body to defray expenses incurred or to be incurred in carrying on such of the activities of its head office as the Minister from time to time specifies.

“(3)

The powers conferred by this section are in addition to those conferred by section 84 of this Act.”

This Act is administered in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

Meat Amendment Act 1972