These Regulations provide for the prohibition of herd testing except by certified herd testers, and for the terms and conditions of regulated herd testing and to ensure that the equipment and methods used for sampling, measuring, and analysing milk meet operating and accuracy standards. The Regulations further provide for: the information that must be supplied to the Livestock Improvement Corporation Limited (LIC) for entering into the core database; for conditions relating to the herd testing service offered by LIC; the establishment of a Panel to decide applications for access to data in core database; circumstances in which LIC must make data available in the core database; etc.
New Zealand · 2001-12-03