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Health Amendment Act 1972

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Short Title

Communicable diseases occurring in animals

Inspection fees

Health Amendment Act 1972

Public Act		1972 No 65
Date of assent		20 October 1972

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Communicable diseases occurring in animals
3	Inspection fees
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Health Act 1956

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 Health Amendment Act 1972, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Health Act 1956 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Communicable diseases occurring in animals

Section 87a of the principal Act (as inserted by section 6 of the Health Amendment Act 1964) is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:

“(6)

Notwithstanding anything in the preceding provisions of this section, or in any Order in Council made hereunder nothing in those provisions shall apply in respect of any animal found to be suffering from a communicable disease in the course of any campaign for the eradication of that disease conducted by or at the instance of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.”

3 Inspection fees

Section 117 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting in paragraph (y) of subsection (1), after the words “registration or”, the words “in respect of the inspection of premises expressly exempted from registration or in respect”.

This Act is administered in the Department of Health.

Health Amendment Act 1972