New Zealand Legislation: Regulations
Regulations are laws made under Acts
(1) A feed supplier must ensure that feed that may be fed lawfully to ruminants is labelled so as to include the most appropriate of the following notices:
“Notice: suitable for feeding to [insert ruminant species or type]”:
“Notice: suitable for inclusion in feed intended for ruminant animals”.
(2) A feed supplier must ensure that feed that may not be fed lawfully to ruminants is labelled as follows:
“Notice: not to be fed to sheep, cattle, deer, alpacas, goats, or other ruminant animals”.
(3) A person who produces, trades in, or distributes fertiliser containing ruminant protein must label that fertiliser in the way specified in subclause (2).
(4) The persons to whom the obligations in subclauses (1) to (3) apply must satisfy the obligations in those subclauses by 1 May 2000.
(5) A feed supplier and a person referred to in subclause (3) commit an offence if that feed supplier or person fail to label, or mislabel, any feed or fertiliser under this regulation or fail to comply with regulation 14.
(6) A person commits an offence if the person, without reasonable excuse, defaces, removes, obscures, or alters a label affixed to feed or fertiliser under these regulations.
(7) A person who commits an offence under subclause (5) or (6) is liable to the penalty specified in regulation 18.
(8) [Revoked]
Regulation 13(8): revoked, on 7 October 2004, by regulation 6 of the Biosecurity (Ruminant Protein) Amendment Regulations 2004 (SR 2004/301).