Meat Board Act 1997 (Act No. 105 of 1997).

This Act make provision for the establishment of the New Zealand Meat Board and regulates the exportation of meat, defined here as the whole or any part of the dressed carcass of any slaughtered livestock.
The Act consists of 83 sections divided into 8 Parts: Preliminary (I); New Zealand Meat Board (II); Licensing Exporters of Meat Products (III); Allocation of Access to Country-Specific Tariff Quota Markets (IV); Carcass Description Systems (V); Administration (VI); Levy on Livestock (VII); Miscellaneous Provisions (VIII).
The object of the Board is to help in the attainment, in the interests of livestock farmers, of the best possible net ongoing returns for New Zealand livestock, meat products, and co-products. Functions of the Board are set out in section 5. Meat exporters shall be licensed in accordance with section 18 and following. Licences shall be valid for three years. The Board may consider establishment of quota allocation mechanisms for exportation of meat in certain circumstances (sect. 26). Part V concerns a description system for cattle carcasses. The Board shall organise meetings of livestock farmers.