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The Stock-remedies Registration Regulations, 1935.--(Notice No. Ag. 3289.)

GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 28th day of May, 1935.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE E. A. RANSOM PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by section twenty-one of the Stock-remedies Act, 1934, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations for the purposes of the said Act, and doth hereby declare that the regulations hereby made shall come into force on the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five.

REGULATIONS.

PRELIMINARY.

1. (1) These regulations may be cited as the Stock-remedies Registration Regulations, 1935.

(2) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,--

"The said Act" means the Stock-remedies Act, 1934 : "Board" means the Stock-remedies Registration Board constituted under the said Act :

"Label" includes any brand or writing on any stock-remedy or on any receptacle containing any stock-remedy or on any carton or cover for any such receptacle :

"Proprietor," in respect of a stock-remedy manufactured in New Zealand, means the manufacturer thereof, and in respect of a stock-remedy not manufactured in New Zealand, means the importer thereof :

"Stock-remedy" means any substance (including vaccines, sera, and other biological products) manufactured, advertised, or sold as a remedy for general use for the cure or prevention of disease in stock, or for the destruction or prevention of parasites of stock, or for the maintenance or improvement of the health or condition of stock, but does not include any substance which is used primarily as a food for stock :

"Vendor" means any person who, either on his own account or on behalf of any other person, sells in the ordinary course of his business any stock-remedy.

REGISTER OF STOCK-REMEDIES.

2. (1) For the purposes of the said Act a Register of Stock-remedies shall be kept by the Registrar of the Board at his office in Wellington.

(2) The register may be kept book-wise or in card form or in such other manner as may be deemed convenient.

(3) The entries in the register may be arranged in order of names of stock-remedies arranged alphabetically and in sub-order of names of proprietors arranged in like manner, or in such other order as may be deemed convenient, and may from time to time be rearranged in different order.

(4) The particulars to be entered in the register shall be those set out in the Form No. 1 in the Schedule hereto.

(5) No entry in the register shall be made by the Registrar without the direction in writing of the Board, and all entries shall be made in the order in which the directions to make the same are received by the Registrar.

(6) The direction in writing of the Board referred to in the last preceding subclause shall be sufficient if signed by the Chairman and given pursuant to a resolution of the Board.

APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION.

3. (1) Every application for the registration of a stock-remedy pursuant to section 6 (3) of the said Act (accompanied by the appropriate fee) shall be in the Form No. 2 in the Schedule hereto.

(2) The specimen copy of every label or advertisement to be used or published in respect of the stock-remedy which by paragraph (e) of subsection (3) of section 6 of the said Act must accompany the application for registration shall be in duplicate.

(3) The statutory declaration of the applicant pursuant to subsection (4) of section 6 of the said Act in verification of the particulars in respect of the stock-remedy set out in his application for registration shall be in the Form No. 3 in the Schedule hereto.

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(4) Where the applicant is a company or other body corporate the declaration referred to in the last preceding subclause shall be made by the managing director, manager, secretary, or other principal executive officer thereof, and where the applicant is a firm or partnership such declaration shall be made by any member thereof acting for and on behalf of such firm or partnership.

EVIDENCE OF REGISTRATION.

4. (1) On the registration of any stock-remedy there shall be issued to the proprietor of the stock-remedy a certificate of registration in the Form No. 4 in the Schedule hereto.

(2) Every such certificate of registration shall be prima facie evidence of the registration of the stock-remedy to which the same relates.

APPROVAL OF LABELS OR ADVERTISEMENTS.

5. (1) Every application by the proprietor of any stock-remedy for approval of any label or advertisement relating to the stock-remedy shall, when not combined with his application for the registration of the stock-remedy, be in the Form No. 5 in the Schedule hereto, and every such application shall be accompanied by two copies of the label or advertisement.

(2) The approval by the Board of any label or advertisement relating to any stock-remedy shall be evidenced by endorsing on each of two copies of such label or advertisement a certificate in the following form, that is to say,--

"Approved for the period of registration ending the 31st day of May, 19

Signature :..............

Registrar, Stock-remedies Registration Board.

Date :

(3) One copy of such label or advertisement duly endorsed as provided by the last preceding subclause shall be forwarded to the proprietor of the stock-remedy, and the other copy shall be retained and filed in the office of the Registrar of the Board.

REGISTRATION OF NEW PROPRIETOR.

6. Where during the period of registration of any stock-remedy the proprietor thereof ceases to be such proprietor, the Board may, on the application of any person who satisfies the Board that he has become the proprietor of the stock-remedy, cause the name and address of the new proprietor to be entered in the register in the place of the name and address of the former proprietor. Every such application shall be accompanied by the appropriate fee as hereinafter prescribed.

SAMPLING.

7. (1) Where for the purposes of the said Act a sample of any stock-remedy is taken by an Inspector, the size, weight, or volume of the sample so taken shall, unless otherwise directed by the Board, be not less than the minimum size, weight, or volume of the stock-remedy offered for sale.

(2) Each of the parts into which the sample is to be divided under section 12 of the said Act shall be placed into a clean, dry receptacle on which shall be affixed a label in the Form No. 6 in the Schedule hereto.

(3) The label shall contain the particulars in the said Form No. 6 and shall be signed by the Inspector and by the proprietor or vendor or other witness present at the taking of the sample.

FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF ANALYST.

8. (1) For the purposes of section 13 of the said Act the certificate of the Analyst in respect of any stock-remedy not being a vaccine, serum, or other biological product, shall be in the Form No. 7 in the Schedule hereto.

(2) The certificate of the Analyst in respect of any stock-remedy being a vaccine, serum, or other biological product shall be in the Form No. 8 in the Schedule hereto.

FEES.

9. (1) The fees payable by a proprietor on application for the registration of stock-remedies shall be as follows:--

(a) On application for the registration of one stock-remedy . . . . . . . . . 3 3 0

(b) On application by the same proprietor for the registration of each additional stock-remedy in respect of the same period of registration . . . . . . . . . 0 5 0

(c) On application by the same proprietor for re-registration from time to time of one stock-remedy . . . . . . . . . 1 10 0

(d) On application by the same proprietor for the re-registration of each additional stock-remedy in respect of the same period of registration . . . . . . . . . 0 2 6