Meat Board Act 2004 (No. 58 of 2004).

This Act provides for the establishment of the New Zealand Meat Board and for its composition and functions, and regulates the exportation of meat.
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.