NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 137

General Section

Australia New Zealand Food Authority

Australia New Zealand Food Authority Act 1991

Australia New Zealand Food Authority

Food Standards

The Australia New Zealand Food Authority advises progress on the following matter relating to the Australian Food Standards Code. You can get further information on this matter in an information paper available from:

The Information Officer
Australia New Zealand Food Authority
P.O. Box 10-559
Wellington
Telephone: (04) 473 9942
Facsimile: (04) 473 9855
Email: nz.reception@anzfa.gov.au

Call For Submissions—Folate Health Claims

The authority has completed its fourth round of assessment of foods to be included in the register of foods approved to carry a folate/neural tube defect (NTD) health claim. This matter relates specifically to a pilot for permitted health claims which may be made concerning the relationship between adequate intakes of folate by women of child-bearing age and the reduction in the risk of NTDs in babies. The pilot is part of the review being undertaken by the authority of the general prohibition on health and related claims.

Subject to any public submissions received on the proposed list of additional foods, the authority will shortly make a recommendation to the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Council that the foods be added to the register and be approved to carry a folate/NTD health claim (Proposal P214 refers).

You are invited to provide comments on the authority’s proposed list of additional foods by Wednesday, 13 October 1999.

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Egg Producers Federation of New Zealand Incorporated

Commodity Levies Act 1990

Annual Levy Prescribed Under Commodity Levies (Eggs) Order 1999

Pursuant to section 4 of the Commodity Levies Act 1990 and section 10 of the Commodity Levies (Eggs) Order 1999 and on the recommendation of the 1999 Annual General Meeting of the Egg Producers Federation of New Zealand Incorporated, I hereby prescribe an annual levy of 35 cents per chick on the basis of the sale of chicks to producers by hatcheries during the period 14 April 1999 to 31 December 1999 and during the following year 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2000.

This notice will take effect on the 30th day of September 1999.

Dated at Auckland this 27th day of September 1999.

R. J. DIPROSE, Executive Director, Egg Producers Federation of New Zealand Incorporated.

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New Zealand Game Industry Board

Game Industry Board Regulations 1985

Game Industry Board – Board Levy

1.1 Pursuant to regulation 17(3) of the Game Industry Board Regulations 1985, notice is given that the Game Industry Board hereby fixes the rates of board levy (which levy rates are exclusive of goods and services tax imposed by the Goods and Services Tax Act 1985) as follows:

(a) On each deer, other than fallow, slaughtered in deer slaughtering premises, per kilogram hot clean carcase weight after removal of condemned parts:
13.7 cents.

(b) On each fallow deer slaughtered in deer slaughtering premises, per kilogram hot clean carcase weight after removal of condemned parts:
10.7 cents.

(c) On each killed game deer carcase received at a game packing house, zero cents per kilogram cold clean carcase weight after removal of condemned parts.

(d) On each piece of antler from fallow deer received at a game packing house for processing or packing per kilogram green weight:
$0.90 cents.

(e) On each piece of antler from deer other than fallow deer received at a game packing house for processing or packing per kilogram green weight:
$2.90.

1.2 No levy will be payable when the value of the velvet grade, as defined by the Industry Agreed Grading Guidelines, is less than or equal to $15/kg (G.S.T. exclusive).

1.3 If, in breach of the statutory obligation to keep adequate records in the board levy, at the rates set out above, will be assessed by the Game Industry Board with reference to such information as the Game Industry Board considers fit.

2. An Animal Health levy will be collected by DSP’s and velvet processors and is incorporated into the levy structure as outlined above. The levy will be broken down as follows:

2.1 GIB levy:

• venison (fallow) 7 cents per kg.
• venison (other) 10 cents per kg.
• velvet (fallow) $0.50 per kg.
• velvet (other) $2.50 per kg.

2.2 Animal Health levy:

• venison 3.7 cents per kg.
• velvet 40 cents per kg.