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Acts

• Biosecurity Act 1993
  Public Act: 1993 No 95
  Date of assent: 26 August 1993
• Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996
  Public Act: 1996 No 30
  Date of assent: 10 June 1996

Key Regulatory Tools

• National Pest/Pathway Management Plans (made under the Biosecurity Act 1993)
  • See - Bovine TB, PSA/Kiwifruit Vine Health, American Foulbrood
• Regional Pest/Pathway Management Plans (made under the Biosecurity Act 1993)
  • See Regional Council/Unitary Authorities of New Zealand.

Regulations

• Biosecurity (National (South Island) Varroa Pest Management Strategy) Order 2005 (SR2005/17)
• Biosecurity (Notifiable Organisms) Order 2006 (SR 2006/320)
• Biosecurity (Resource Management Act Exemption) Regulations (No 2) 2008 (SR 2008/200)
• Biosecurity (Resource Management Act Exemption) Regulations (No 3) 2008 (SR 2008/201)
• Biosecurity (Resource Management Act Exemption) Regulations 2008 (SR 2008/7)
• Biosecurity (Small Scale Organism Management) Order 1993 (SR 1993/324) (as at 03 September 2007)
• Biosecurity (Forms) Regulations 1995 (SR 1995/129) (as at 03 September 2007)
• Biosecurity (National Bovine Tuberculosis Pest Management Strategy) Order 1998 (SR 1998/179) (as at 03 September 2007)
• Biosecurity (National American Foulbrood Pest Management Strategy) Order 1998 (SR 1998/260) (as at 03 September 2007)
• Biosecurity (Bovine Tuberculosis-Otago Land Levy) Order 1998 (SR 1998/442) (as at 03 September 2007)
• Biosecurity (Bovine Tuberculosis - Cattle Levy) Order 1998 (SR 1998/457) (as at 03 September 2007)
• Biosecurity (Deer and Other Testing Costs) Regulations 1998 (SR 1998/458) (as at 03 September 2007)
• Biosecurity (Animal Identification Systems) Regulations 1999 (SR 1999/125) (as at 03 September 2007)
• Biosecurity (Imported Animals, Embryos, and Semen Information) Regulations 1999 (SR 1999/367) (as at 03 September 2007)
• Biosecurity (Ruminant Protein) Regulations 1999 (SR 1999/410) (as at 03 September 2007)
• Biosecurity (American Foulbrood—Apiary and Beekeeper Levy) Order 2003 (SR 2003/283) (as at 03 September 2007)
• Biosecurity (Gypsy Moth Levy) Order 2004 (SR 2004/352) (as at 04 September 2007)