Explanatory note

This note is not part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This order comes into force on 1 July 2011.

The order amends the State Sector (New Zealand Food Safety Authority) Order 2010 (the principal order). The principal order is concerned with the abolition of the New Zealand Food Safety Authority and the transfer of its functions to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry by exercise of the Crown's prerogative on 1 July 2010.

The principal order applies sections 30H and 30I of the State Sector Act 1988, which concern consequential changes to references to departments and chief executives in enactments and other things in force at the time of reorganisations, to things coming into force, entered into, or created during a 12-month transitional period after the transfer of the Authority's functions to the Ministry. This amendment order extends that transitional period until 30 June 2013.