NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 89

Biosecurity Act 1993

Unwanted Organisms Under Biosecurity Act 1993 (Notice No. 1016)

I, Barry Desmond O’Neil, Chief Technical Officer, pursuant to the Biosecurity Act 1993, hereby declare the following organisms (many of which are identified by the name of the disease the organisms causes) that I believe are capable or potentially capable of causing unwanted harm to any natural resources, to be unwanted organisms for the purposes of the Biosecurity Act 1993:

Diseases of animals

Acute haemorhagic septicaemia
Acute fowl cholera
Acute infectious laryngotracheitis
African horse sickness
African swine fever
Anaplasmosis
Anthrax
Aujeszky’s disease
Babesiosis
Blue tongue
Borna disease
Brucellosis
Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia
Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia
Equine encephalomyelitis
Equine infectious anaemia
Ephemeral fever
Epizootic lymphangitis
Foot and mouth disease
Fowl plague
Fowl tick fever
Glanders
Heart water
Ixodidae
Johne’s disease
Louping ill
Lumpy skin disease
Lymphomatosis
Maedi-visna
Melioidosis
Newcastle disease
Nodular worm of sheep
Psittacosis
‘Q’ fever
Rabies
Rabbit calicivirus
Rift Valley fever
Rinderpest
Scrapie
Swine fever
Swine vesicular disease
Sheep scab
Sheep pox
Stickfast flea
Swine pox
Teschen disease

Theileriasis
Trichinosis
True Hydatids
Trypanosomiasis
Tuberculosis
Tularemia
Vesicular exanthema
Vesicular stomatitis
Warbles.

Diseases of fish

Aeromonas salmonicida (furunculosis)
Infectious haematopoietic necrosis (IHN)
Infectious pancreatic necrosis (IPN)
Myxosoma cerebralis (whirling disease)
Spring viraemia of carp (SVC)
Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia (VHS)
Yersinia ruckeri (enteric redmouth disease).

Animals

Boa constrictor
Cherax tenuimanus (marron)
Cherax quadracarinatus (red claw marron)
Ictalurus punctatus (channel catfish)
Haliotis rufescens (red paua).

Relating to plants

All those organisms affecting plants declared to be notifiable in the Biosecurity (Notifiable Organisms) Order 1993 and any subsequent amendments to that Order.

Note: The above list is a compilation of all unwanted organisms as at 19 August 1996. The Chief Technical Officer is currently in the process of reviewing unwanted organisms that relate to animals. That review is expected to be finalised before the end of 1996, and this declaration will then be replaced.

Dated at Wellington this 19th day of August 1996.

BARRY O’NEIL, Chief Technical Officer.

GO5391

Biosecurity (Declaration of a Controlled Area) Notice—Hydatids

I hereby declare, pursuant to section 131 of the Biosecurity Act 1993, the whole of New Zealand, excluding the whole of Arapawa Island, to be a controlled area (hereinafter referred to as “the controlled area”) to enable the limitation of the spread of true hydatids (Echinococcus granulosus), being an unwanted organism under that Act.

While this declaration is in force, I hereby give notice of the following matters:

(i) All ruminants and pigs to be slaughtered in home killing facilities in the controlled area may only be slaughtered if those facilities are located within a dog-proof enclosure in order to ensure that raw offal is not accessible to dogs.

(ii) Dogs within the controlled area shall not be fed the offal of sheep, cattle, pigs and goats unless that offal is first cooked by boiling for a minimum of 30 minutes.

(iii) Dogs within the controlled area shall not be allowed access to dead livestock.

(iv) Dogs within the controlled area shall not be allowed access to the raw offal of feral ruminants killed in the controlled area.

(v) All landowners within the controlled area are to ensure that the above provisions are complied with.