Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Amendment Regulations (No 2) 2004

  • revoked
  • Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Amendment Regulations (No 2) 2004: revoked, on 1 November 2011, pursuant to regulation 16 of the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines (Exemptions and Prohibited Substances) Regulations 2011 (SR 2011/327).

Reprint as at 1 November 2011

Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Amendment Regulations (No 2) 2004

(SR 2004/248)

Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Amendment Regulations (No 2) 2004: revoked, on 1 November 2011, pursuant to regulation 16 of the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines (Exemptions and Prohibited Substances) Regulations 2011 (SR 2011/327).

Note

Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this eprint.

A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this eprint, together with other explanatory material about this eprint.

These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.

Pursuant to section 75 of the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Act 2004, Her Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the recommendation of the Minister for Food Safety and on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following regulations.

1 Title

(1)

These regulations are the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Amendment Regulations (No 2) 2004.

(2)

In these regulations, the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Regulations 20011 are called “the principal regulations”.

2 Commencement

These regulations come into force on the 28th day after the date of their notification in the Gazette.

3 New regulation 10 added

The principal regulations are amended by adding the following regulation:

10 Prohibition on use of certain agricultural compounds

(1)

The substances described in Schedule 8 are prohibited from use as agricultural compounds or as ingredients in agricultural compounds.

(2)

This regulation overrides anything to the contrary in any other regulation.

4 New Schedule 8 added

The principal regulations are amended by adding the Schedule 8 set out in the Schedule.

Schedule New Schedule 8 added to principal regulations

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Schedule 8 Substances prohibited from use as agricultural compounds or as ingredients in agricultural compounds

  • Aldrin Chlordane

  • DDT including DDD (also known as TDE) and DDE

  • Dieldrin

  • Endrin

  • HCB (also known as hexachlorobenzene) except as an impurity in other active ingredients

  • HCH (also known as hexachlorocyclohexane or benzenehexachloride)

  • Heptachlor

  • Lindane

  • Mirex

  • Strychnine

Diane Morcom,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.

These regulations, which come into force on the 28th day after their notification in the Gazette, amend the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2001 (“the principal regulations”).

New regulation 10 and Schedule 8 are added to the principal regulations to prohibit a number of high-risk substances from use as agricultural compounds or as ingredients in agricultural compounds.

Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.

Date of notification in Gazette: 26 August 2004.

Contents
  • 1

    General

  • 2

    About this eprint

  • 3

    List of amendments incorporated in this eprint (most recent first)

Notes
1 General

This is an eprint of the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Amendment Regulations (No 2) 2004. The eprint incorporates all the amendments to the regulations as at 1 November 2011. The list of amendments at the end of these notes specifies all the amendments incorporated into this eprint since 3 September 2007.

Relevant provisions of any amending enactments that contain transitional, savings, or application provisions that cannot be compiled in the eprint are also included, after the principal enactment, in chronological order.

2 About this eprint

This eprint has not been officialised. For more information about eprints and officialisation, please see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/eprints/.

3 List of amendments incorporated in this eprint (most recent first)

Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines (Exemptions and Prohibited Substances) Regulations 2011 (SR 2011/327): regulation 16

1 SR 2001/101