New Zealand Legislation: Regulations

3 Purposes of regulations

• The purposes of these regulations are—

  • (a) to prohibit the feeding of ruminant protein in any form, composition, or admixture to ruminants because of the risk of amplifying and spreading transmissible spongiform encephalopathies by doing so; and

  • (b) to require operators to prepare, register, and implement ruminant protein control programmes; and

  • (c) consequentially, to manage the risk to New Zealand of an outbreak of a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.