Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (Organisms Prescribed as Not New Organisms) Amendment Regulations 2019

2019/193

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Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (Organisms Prescribed as Not New Organisms) Amendment Regulations 2019

Rt Hon Dame Helen Winkelmann, Administrator of the Government

Order in Council

At Wellington this 12th day of August 2019

Present:
Her Excellency the Administrator of the Government in Council

These regulations are made under section 140(1)(c) of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996—

(a)

on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council; and

(b)

on the recommendation of the Minister for the Environment made after consideration of the matters in section 140(2) of that Act and after complying with the requirements of section 141 of that Act.

Regulations

1 Title

These regulations are the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (Organisms Prescribed as Not New Organisms) Amendment Regulations 2019.

2 Commencement

These regulations come into force on 15 September 2019.

3 Principal regulations

These regulations amend the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (Organisms Prescribed as Not New Organisms) Regulations 2009 (the principal regulations).

4 Schedule replaced

Replace the Schedule with the Schedule set out in the Schedule of these regulations.

Schedule Schedule replaced

r 4

Schedule Organisms prescribed as not new organisms

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Acizzia solanicola
Aridelus rufotestaceus
Bactericera cockerelli
Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum
Cybocephalus sp. that has Landcare Research Systematics Collections Data accession numbers NZAC04212648 and NZAC04212649
Frankliniella intonsa
Harmonia axyridis
Komagataeibacter xylinus
Listeria virus P100
Macrotrachelia sp.
Nasonovia ribisnigri
Orchamoplatus citri
The strain of the fungal organism Puccinia myrsiphylli that has the accession number DQ015697 in the United States National Center for Biotechnology Information GenBank
Varroa destructor
Serangium maculigerum

Rachel Hayward,
for the 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 15 September 2019, amend the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (Organisms Prescribed as Not New Organisms) Regulations 2009.

The regulations add 5 organisms to the schedule of organisms that are “not new” organisms for the purposes of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996.

The new classification will remove the need to apply for Environmental Protection Authority approval for importing, developing, field testing, or releasing those organisms.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.

Date of notification in Gazette: 15 August 2019.

These regulations are administered by the Ministry for the Environment.