NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 36

Implant Date

Type Numeric Length 6
Date of the implantation.

Implant Donor

Type Text Length 19
Identification of genetic dam.

Implant Sire

Type Text Length 19
Identification of sire of embryo.

Recipient animal

Type Text Length 19
Identification of recipient dam

CALVING COMMENTS:

Calf number

Type Numeric Length 2
The sequence number of the calf born at this parturition. (1 for all singleton calves)

Fate of calf

Type Text Length 1
The code showing the fate of the calf at birth.

• D Died
• S Sold
• R Reared
• B Bobbied

Comment code

Type Text Length 2
A code indicating the condition of the calf near to its time of birth.

• E Stillborn
• F Blind
• G Bowel or intestine abnormality
• H Hernia
• J Paralysed legs
• K Twisted feet
• M Brain damage—retarded
• R Breech birth
• S Breathing difficulties
• T Head twisted under
• U Arthritis
• V Calf weak and/or small
• W Calf too large
• X Difficult to rear, won’t drink
• Y Nervous, timid
• Z Extra teats
• 2 Scours
• 3 Red factor
• 4 Mulefoot
• 5 Mummified calf
• 9 Refer to farmer comment

Farmer comment:

Type Text Length 10
A description of the condition when ‘9’ is recorded in the Comment Code above.

“NEW ZEALAND DAIRY BOARD”

At its meeting on 31st March 1994, the Dairy Board resolved to:

(a) approve the Access Code for the National Dairy Herd Improvement Database as set out below, to take effect from 1 May 1994;

(b) appoint the Livestock Improvement Corporation Limited as the Database Manager of the National Dairy Herd Improvement Database.

J. B. Murray,
Secretary,
New Zealand Dairy Board”.

ACCESS CODE FOR THE NATIONAL DAIRY HERD IMPROVEMENT DATABASE

Background

Under the Dairy Board Act 1961 the New Zealand Dairy Board (“NZDB”) is charged with the development of the New Zealand dairy industry with a view to maintaining and improving the standard of quality, and expanding production, of the stock or produce derived from that industry, and generally ensuring as far as may be practicable the adoption of measures and practices designed to promote greater efficiency in the dairy industry in furtherance of the interests and welfare of persons engaged in it.

As a consequence, the NZDB initially through its Livestock Improvement Division and latterly through Livestock Improvement Corporation Limited (LIC) has established and continues to maintain a single database, (the “Database” now known as the National Dairy Herd Improvement Database), to facilitate the efficient collection, storage and use of information it has acquired on the New Zealand dairy industry generally for the efficient implementation of that industry’s Herd Improvement Plan. The Database is now an extremely valuable record or library of information which LIC continues to accumulate, hold and use for the benefit of the industry as a whole. It contains among other things, valuable data on mating, calving, identification, location, indicators of genetic merit, production traits, traits other than production for or concerning a large part of that industry. It is intended to continue to enhance and expand that library of data with such other information as may be considered appropriate for those purposes and for the continuing overall benefit of the New Zealand dairy industry.

The Database facility is currently owned by LIC. It has been appointed by NZDB to manage the Database and as Database Manager to be the industry’s custodian of that data. LIC has proprietary rights over much of the information contained in the Database as well as having responsibilities for ensuring the integrity and security of the Database as a whole and the accuracy, validity and completeness of the information held or derived.

In 1991 the operation of the Database was the subject of an extensive review by a Committee which included representatives of the New Zealand dairy industry and was chaired by Mr K J Macdonald. On the recommendation of that Committee, the NZDB has established a Dairy Herd Improvement Tribunal (the “Tribunal”) as an independent body to develop guidelines and conditions for access to the information contained in that Database and to mediate on issues referred to it by any party relating to such.

The Tribunal has accordingly developed this Access Code to set out, among other things, the powers and procedures of the Tribunal and to clarify that there shall be no access to the Database by any party except in accordance with the Access Principles set out in this Code.

Applications for Access to Information

1.1 Any person or entity (the “Applicant”) may apply for access to the Database as an individual or as a provider of a service in the form prescribed from time to time by the Tribunal (which includes to download or copy), add, delete or modify the information in the Database.

1.2 In dealing with any application the Tribunal may