Pursuant to section 34(2)(a) of the National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) Act 2012, I Stephen Stuart, acting under delegated authority as Chief Executive of National Animal Identification and Tracing Limited, which is the designated NAIT organisation, give notice of alternative time limits to those prescribed by regulations made under the NAIT Act 2012 for the provision of information by any person in charge of animals (PICA).

These amendments take effect on the date of publication of this notice and will continue until the cessation of the National State of Emergency due to COVID-19. They are solely amendments to the National Animal Identification and Tracing (Obligations and Exemptions) Regulations 2012.

Regulation 10 (“Timing and other requirements authorised by section 33”)

• Amend the time limit in Regulation 10(1) (“A person registering under section 27(1) as a PICA or PICA delegate must do so within 48 hours after the end of the day on which the person becomes a PICA or PICA delegate”) to extend the “48 hours” requirement to five business days.
• Amend the time limit in Regulation 10(3) (“A PICA making a declaration under section 31(1) (movement) must make it within 48 hours after the end of the day:
  1. on which the movement starts, in the case dealt with in section 31(2)(a);
  2. on which the movement ends, in the case dealt with in section 31(2)(b)”)
  to extend the “48 hours” requirement to five business days.

• Amend the time limit in Regulation 10(4) (“A PICA making a declaration under section 32 (exit declarations) must make it—
  1. within 48 hours after the end of the day on which the animal is slaughtered, in the cases dealt with in Regulation 9(2);
  2. within 48 hours after the end of the day on which the PICA first knows that the animal has died, in the cases dealt with in Regulation 9(3):
  3. within 48 hours after the end of the day on which the PICA first knows that the animal is lost, in the cases dealt with in Regulation 9(4)”)
  to extend each “48 hours” requirement to five business days.

Regulation 21 (“Point of origin PICAs also destination PICAs”)

• Amend the requirement in Regulation 21(3)(c) (the PICA must “provide [a declaration] to the NAIT organisation within 48 hours after the end of the day on which the animal movement ends”) to extend the “48 hours” requirement to five business days.

Dated at Wellington this 26th day of March 2020.

STEPHEN STUART, Chief Executive, National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) Limited.