Biosecurity (Notifiable Organisms) Order 2006.

This Order declares certain organisms to be notifiable organisms for the purposes of the Biosecurity Act 1993. Organisms listed in the Order may affect livestock, human health, horticulture, forestry, marine environment, etc. Pursuant to section 45(2) of the Biosecurity Act 1993, the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, establishes the Biosecurity (Notifiable Organisms) Order 2006. Schedule lists Notifiable organisms of Invasive plants; Organisms affecting crustacea; Organisms affecting honey bees; Organisms affecting marine or freshwater environment; Organisms affecting molluscs and multiple species; Organisms primarily affecting the following issues: birds, cattle, dogs, fish, forestry, horses, horticulture, human health, native ecosystems, pigs, sheep and goats, etc.
Objects of the Board are to facilitate the attainment of the best possible ongoing returns available from quota markets and to manage the Board’s reserves in the interests of livestock farmers. The Act provides for the compliance with New Zealand's international treaty obligations relating to quota markets by or through the Board on behalf of the Crown and for the administration of the allocation of access to such quota markets. The Text further provides for the registration of meat exporters. The rest of the Act contains provisions of miscellaneous nature and offences and penalties.