Download Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines (Animal Feed

Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines (Animal Feed) Order 2006
Silvia Cartwright, Governor-General
Order in Council
At Wellington this 27th day of February 2006
Present:
Her Excellency the Governor-General in Council
Pursuant to section 2(2) of the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines
Act 1997, Her Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with
the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following order.
Contents
1 Title
2 Commencement
3 Animal feed declared to be agricultural compound
Order
1 Title
This order is the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines (Animal Feed)
Order 2006.
2 Commencement
This order comes into force on the 28th day after the date of its notification
in the Gazette.
3 Animal feed declared to be agricultural compound
(1) For the purposes of the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines
Act 1997, animal feed is declared to be an agricultural compound.
(2) In this clause,--animal feed means any substance or preparation manufactured or prepared in
whole or in part from one or more than one kind of grain, seed, plant, oil,
juice, meat, fish, or other source of nutrient of any kind and used, or
intended to be used, as food for stock, pets, or other animals; and includes
any animal feed additive
animal feed additive means a non-nutrient substance added to animal feed to
improve the preservation, digestion, colour, palatability, texture, or
nutritive value of the animal feed.
Diane Morcom,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Explanatory Note
This note is not part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general
effect.
This order, which comes into force on the 28th day after the date of its
notification in the Gazette, declares animal feed (including any animal feed
additive) to be an agricultural compound for the purposes of the Agricultural
Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Act 1997.
Certain types of animal feed already fall within the definition of agricultural
compound. This order provides that all substances or preparations that are
manufactured or prepared as animal feed will be treated as agricultural
compounds for the purposes of the Act.
Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.
Date of notification in Gazette: 2 March 2006.
This order is administered in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.