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Reprint as at 31 March 2010 Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985 (SR 1985/208) David Beattie, Governor-General Order in Council At the Government Buildings at Wellington this 19th day of August 1985 Present: The Hon G W R Palmer presiding in Council Pursuant to section 42 of the Food Act 1981, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby makes the following regulations.
Contents 1 2 2A Title and commencement Interpretation Meaning of dietary supplement Page 2 3 4 Note Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.

A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.

These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Health.
1 5 6 7 9 9 10 10 11 11 12 13 13 14 16 16 16 17 18 19 Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985 Reprinted as at 31 March 2010 r 1 Part 1 General requirements Maximum daily doses Dietary supplements not to be sold unless properly labelled General requirements for labelling of dietary supplements Form and manner of labelling Size of letters Principal display panel Consumer information panel Misleading statements Therapeutic claims Part 2 Specific requirements Tabletting aids Preservatives Antioxidants Colouring substances Artificial sweeteners Flavouring substances Vitamins Minerals Enzymes Part 3 Offences and penalty 21 Offences and penalty Regulations Title and commencement These regulations may be cited as the Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985.
Regulations 2 and 4 to 11 shall come into force on 1 September 1987.

Except as provided in subclause (2), these regulations shall come into force on 1 January 1987.

Regulation 1(2): substituted, on 1 January 1987, by regulation 2 of the Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985, Amendment No 1 (SR 1986/378).
1 (1) (2) (3) 2 Reprinted as at 31 March 2010 Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985 r 2 Regulation 1(3): substituted, on 1 January 1987, by regulation 2 of the Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985, Amendment No 1 (SR 1986/378).
2 (1) Interpretation In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,— batch means a quantity of dietary supplement produced under essentially the same conditions during a particular period, and usually from a particular “line” or other identifiable processing unit common name, in relation to a dietary supplement, means the name by which the dietary supplement is generally known, being a noun defined in a dictionary of the English language of authority and repute in New Zealand to mean that kind of dietary supplement; and also means any expression containing such a noun container means any box, packet, or other receptacle in which 1 or more packages of dietary supplements are, or are to be, enclosed dietary supplement has the meaning given to it by regula- tion 2A incidental constituent means any extraneous substance, toxic substance, or pesticide that is contained or present in or on any dietary supplement; but does not include any preservative, antioxidant, colouring substance, artificial sweetener, flavour- ing substance, food conditioner, anti-caking agent, gaseous packing agent, propellant, or vitamin, or any mineral ingredient means any substance, other than an incidental con- stituent, that is— (a) used in the manufacture or preparation of a dietary sup- plement; and present, whether in a modified form or not, in the final product (b) principal display panel means the part of a label that is most likely to be displayed, presented, shown, or examined, under ordinary or customary conditions of display for retail sale; and, if such likelihood is equal in respect of 2 or more panels, means every such panel 3 r 2A Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985 Reprinted as at 31 March 2010 (2) printed includes written, typewritten, engraved, lithographed, or otherwise traced or copied.
In these regulations, the symbols specified in the first column of the table of this subclause shall have the meanings specified in relation to those symbols in the second column of the table.
Table of subclause (2) Symbol g mcg mg mm ppm Meaning grams micrograms milligrams millimetres parts per million (3) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, all references to proportions (whether as percentages, parts per million, or otherwise) shall be references to proportions by weight in a dietary supplement as sold.
(4) Nothing in these regulations shall prohibit the use of any sym- bol the style of which conforms with a specimen in the table of subclause (2), or with the conventional usage of metric meas- urements.

Regulation 2(1) dietary supplement: substituted, on 31 March 2010, by regulation 4(1) of the Dietary Supplements Amendment Regulations 2010 (SR 2010/5).

Regulation 2(1) foodstuff: revoked, on 31 March 2010, by regulation 4(2) of the Dietary Supplements Amendment Regulations 2010 (SR 2010/5).
Regulation 2(1) incidental constituent: amended, on 31 March 2010, by regulation 4(3) of the Dietary Supplements Amendment Regulations 2010 (SR 2010/5).

Regulation 2(1) ingredient: amended, on 31 March 2010, by regulation 4(4) of the Dietary Supplements Amendment Regulations 2010 (SR 2010/5).

2A Meaning of dietary supplement (1) In these regulations, dietary supplement means something to which subclauses (2) to (6) apply.
It is an amino acid, edible substance, herb, mineral, synthetic nutrient, or vitamin.

It is sold by itself or in a mixture.

(2) (3) 4 Reprinted as at 31 March 2010 Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985 Part 1 r 3 (4) (5) (6) 3 (1) It is sold in a controlled dosage form as a liquid, powder, or tablet (which might be described on the label as a cachet, cap- sule, lozenge, or pastille instead of as a tablet).

It is intended to be ingested orally.


It is intended to supplement the amount of the amino acid, edible substance, herb, mineral, synthetic nutrient, or vitamin normally derived from food.

Regulation 2A: inserted, on 31 March 2010, by regulation 5 of the Dietary Sup- plements Amendment Regulations 2010 (SR 2010/5).
Part 1 General requirements Maximum daily doses Every dietary supplement described as or containing minerals or vitamins specified in the first column of the table of this subclause shall be so manufactured that each daily dose (for an adult) does not contain more than the maximum specified in the second column of the table.
Table of subclause (1) Dietary supplement Maximum daily dose Minerals Copper Iron Selenium Zinc Vitamins 5 mg 24 mg 150 mcg 15 mg Vitamin A or retinol Niacin (and salts) or nicotinic acid (and salts) Vitamin B12 or cyanocobalamin or hydroxocobalamin Vitamin D 3000 mcg 100 mg 50 mcg 25 mcg 5 Part 1 r 4 Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985 Reprinted as at 31 March 2010 Dietary supplement Folic acid Maximum daily dose 500 mcg in the case of a diet- ary supplement that the Dir- ector-General of Health has confirmed has been prepared in a way that accords with the New Zealand Code of Good Manufacturing Practice for Manufacture and Distribu- tion of Therapeutic Goods 300 mcg in the case of a dietary supplement that the Director-General of Health has not confirmed has been prepared in a way that ac- cords with the New Zealand Code of Good Manufactur- ing Practice for Manufacture and Distribution of Thera- peutic Goods Every dietary supplement described as or containing any min- eral, other than a mineral specified in regulation 19(1), shall be so manufactured that each daily dose (for an adult) does not contain more than the maximum specified in the current edi- tion of Recommended Dietary Allowances, published by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sci- ence and National Research Council, Washington DC, USA.
Regulation 3(1) table: amended, on 31 March 2010, by regulation 6 of the Diet- ary Supplements Amendment Regulations 2010 (SR 2010/5).
Dietary supplements not to be sold unless properly labelled No person shall sell any package or container containing any dietary supplement, or any dietary supplement contained in a package or container, if the package or container— (a) does not bear a label containing all the particulars re- quired by these regulations to be contained on a label relating to such package or container; or bears a label containing anything that is prohibited by these regulations from appearing on a label relating to such package or container; or bears a label containing any particulars that are not in the position, manner, and style required by these regu- (b) (c) (2) 4 6 Reprinted as at 31 March 2010 Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985 Part 1 r 5 lations in respect of a label relating to such package or container.
5 (1) General requirements for labelling of dietary supplements Every package and container containing a dietary supplement shall, unless otherwise provided in these regulations, bear a label that includes the following: (a) the common name of the dietary supplement, or a de- scription (other than the brand name of the dietary sup- plement) sufficient to indicate the true nature of the diet- ary supplement, or a description of the dietary supple- ment including the common names of its principal in- gredients: a statement of the net weight or volume or number of the contents of the package or container, whichever meas- ure is appropriate for retail sale of the dietary supple- ment concerned: the trading name and business address of the manufac- turer or seller or packer of the dietary supplement, or of the owner of the rights of manufacture, or of the princi- pal or the agent of any of them: a consumer information panel that complies with regu- lation 9: the words “dietary supplement”: a batch number: a date mark, being an expression in one of the following forms: use by (followed by a date); or (i) (ii) not to be consumed after (followed by a date); or (iii) words of similar meaning (followed by a date);— the relevant date in any case being no later than 5 years after the date of manufacture: a statement of the recommended daily dosage (for an adult) both as to quantity and frequency, which shall not exceed the maximum daily dose permitted by regu- lation 3, and, if the dietary supplement is suitable for children, the recommended daily dose for children: a warning in any case where a danger exists if an over- dose is taken: 7 (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) Part 1 r 5 Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985 Reprinted as at 31 March 2010 (j) the method of preparation before use (where necessary).
(2) Notwithstanding paragraphs (f) and (g) of subclause (1), no container containing a dietary supplement need be labelled with the batch number or with a date mark.

(3) Notwithstanding subclause (1), where dietary supplements are packed in blister or strip packaging, the packaging shall be labelled with— (a) (b) For the purposes of subclause (1)(c),— (a) the common name; and a batch number.
(4) (b) (c) a postal address, not being a telegraphic or code address or an address at a post office, shall be given: the name and address of a person who is not ordinar- ily resident in New Zealand shall not be sufficient un- less the dietary supplement is wholly manufactured and packed outside New Zealand: in the case where the trading name is of a body corpo- rate (whether registered inside or outside New Zealand), either the name of the town in which the body corpo- rate has its registered office or the full postal address of the premises where the dietary supplement is actually manufactured or packed by the body corporate shall be given as the address.
(5) Where a package or container of a dietary supplement is en- closed or wrapped in a transparent covering and the particulars with which that package or container is required to be labelled are clearly visible through that covering, that covering shall be exempt from the labelling requirements under these regu- lations.
(6) No person who has in that person’s possession any package or container of a dietary supplement intended for sale by retail shall— (a) remove any label required by these regulations to be on the package or container; or alter, erase, obliterate, or obscure any word or statement borne on such a label in accordance with any of the requirements of these regulations.
(b) 8 Reprinted as at 31 March 2010 Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985 Part 1 r 7 6 (1) (2) 7 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (b) Form and manner of labelling Every word or statement that is required by these regulations to be borne on a label shall— (a) be conspicuously printed and, for each statement separ- ately required, be in uniform colour contrasting strongly with a uniform background; and be clearly, legibly, and durably marked either on the ma- terial of the package or container or on material firmly and securely attached to the package or container; and be presented with continuity.
(c) The lettering of every word or statement required by these regulations shall be clear, distinct, and legible with no decor- ation, embellishment, or distortion that could interfere with the legibility of the words.

all capital letters; or all lower case letters; or lower case letters with an initial capital letter.
Size of letters The lettering of every word or statement required by these regulations to appear on labels shall be— (a) (b) (c) In every case to which paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of sub- clause (1) applies, the height of the lettering shall be uniform in every word or statement that is separately required.

In every case to which paragraph (c) of subclause (1) applies, the height of the lower case lettering shall be uniform in every word or statement that is separately required.
Except as otherwise provided in these regulations, the letter- ing of any word or statement required by these regulations to appear on labels shall be not less than 1.5 mm in height, except where the package or container to be labelled is so small as to prevent the use of letters of that height, in which case letters of not less than 0.75 mm in height may be used.
The height of the lettering for the common name or description that is required by these regulations to appear in the principal display panel of a label shall be not less than one-third of the height of the largest lettering appearing in that panel, and— 9 Part 1 r 8 Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985 Reprinted as at 31 March 2010 (a) (b) not less than one-twentieth of the height of the label, in the case of a label that is no longer than twice the width of the label; and not less than one-thirtieth of the height of the label, in any other case.
For the purposes of subclause (5), the height of a label is the distance between the top and bottom of all printed or pictorial information on the label.

Principal display panel The particulars that are required by paragraph (a) and para- graph (b) and paragraph (e) of regulation 5(1) to appear on a label shall appear in the principal display panel.
Every word or statement that is required by these regulations to appear in the principal display panel of a label shall be in lines that are generally parallel to the base on which the package or container rests as it is designed to be displayed.

In the case of a cylindrical package or container, the width of the principal display panel on the cylindrical surface shall not exceed one-third of the circumference of the package or container.
Consumer information panel The following information, when required by these regulations to be on the label, shall be grouped together in one portion of the label (that portion being called the consumer information panel): (a) the statement of ingredients, which shall show— (i) the quantities or proportions of the claimed active ingredients in the package or container or in each dosage unit, or, where the dietary supplement is divided into a number of units, the quantity or proportion of the claimed active ingredients in each unit; and the inactive ingredients in the package or con- tainer, which shall be described either by their specific names or by their class names, being any of the following permitted class names: (ii) (6) 8 (1) (2) (3) 9 (1) 10 Reprinted as at 31 March 2010 Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985 Part 1 r 11 • • • • • • • • • antioxidants: artificial sweeteners: colouring or colour: encapsulating aids: flavouring or flavour: minerals: preservatives: tabletting aids: vitamins: (2) the storage instructions (where appropriate).
(b) The consumer information panel may be any part of the label, but shall— (a) be conspicuously placed in relation to other information included on the label; and be clearly differentiated from all other promotional ma- terial or illustrations.
(b) 10 Misleading statements (1) No printed, pictorial, or other descriptive matter appearing on or attached to or supplied or displayed with any dietary sup- plement shall include any comment on, reference to, or ex- planation of any word, statement, or label required by these regulations to be borne on any dietary supplement if that com- ment, reference, or explanation either directly or by implica- tion contradicts, qualifies, or modifies that word or statement or the contents of that label.
(2) No printed, pictorial, or other descriptive matter supplied or displayed with any dietary supplement shall include any false or misleading statement, word, brand, picture, or mark purporting to indicate the nature, suitability, quantity, quality, strength, purity, composition, weight, origin, age, effects, or proportion of the dietary supplement or of any ingredients of the dietary supplement.
11 Therapeutic claims Except as permitted by the Medicines Act 1981 and any regu- lations made under that Act, no dietary supplement or package or container containing a dietary supplement shall be adver- 11 Part 2 r 12 Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985 Reprinted as at 31 March 2010 tised or labelled with a statement relating to any of the follow- ing matters: (a) (b) treating or preventing disease: diagnosing disease or ascertaining the existence, de- gree, or extent of a physiological condition: altering the shape, structure, size, or weight of the human body: otherwise preventing or interfering with the normal op- eration of a physiological function, whether perman- ently or temporarily, and whether by way of terminating or reducing or postponing, or increasing or accelerating, the operation of that function, or in any other way.
(c) (d) Part 2 Specific requirements Tabletting aids In these regulations tabletting aid means a food grade sub- stance that is added to a dietary supplement to constitute the form in which that supplement is sold; and includes an encap- sulating aid.
The following tabletting aids or encapsulating aids, and any other food conditioners specified in the Food Regulations 1984 (SR 1984/262), may be added to dietary supplements: • • • • • • • • • • • • • alginic acid and its derivatives: beeswax: bone meal (sterilised); calcium phosphate: carbohydrate sweeteners: carnauba wax: cellulose and its derivatives: coating pigments: enteric coatings: gelatin: gelatin capsule shells: lactose: lecithin: light mineral oils: 12 (1) (2) 12 Reprinted as at 31 March 2010 Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985 Part 2 r 14 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • monoglycerides, diglycerides, and triglycerides from edible oils and fats: montan ester wax: pectins: polyethylene glycols: polyvinylpyrrolidone and its derivatives: shellac: silicic acid and its salts: starch: starches (modified): stearic acid and its salts: talc (sterilised): vegetable gums: vegetable oils, and hydrogenated vegetable oils: xanthan gum: zein corn protein.
13 (1) Preservatives In these regulations preservative means any substance that, when added to a dietary supplement, has the property of arrest- ing or impeding fermentation, putrefaction, or decomposition.

(2) Dietary supplements may contain any of the following preser- vatives and no others: • • • • benzoic acid or sodium benzoate: parahydroxybenzoic acid and its esters: sorbic acid, or its sodium, calcium, or potassium salts: sulphur dioxide, or sulphites calculated as sulphur diox- ide.
14 (1) Antioxidants In these regulations antioxidant means any substance that, when added to a dietary supplement, has the property of ar- resting or retarding oxidative rancidity.
(2) Dietary supplements may contain any of the following antiox- idants and no others: 13 Part 2 r 15 Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985 Reprinted as at 31 March 2010 (a) (b) (c) (d) propyl gallate, dodecyl gallate, octyl gallate, buty- lated hydroxyanisole (BHA), butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), and tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ), where the proportion of those antioxidants, singly or in com- bination, does not exceed 100 ppm: ascorbyl palmitate, and ascorbyl stearate, where the proportion of those antioxidants, singly or in combin- ation, does not exceed 500 ppm: natural tocopherols, synthetic tocopherols, citric acid, and sodium citrate: isopropyl citrate mixture, monoglyceride citrate, and phosphoric acid, where the proportion of those antiox- idants, whether singly or in combination, does not ex- ceed 100 ppm.
15 (1) Colouring substances In these regulations colouring substance means any sub- stance that, when added or applied to a dietary supplement, is capable of imparting colour to that dietary supplement.

(2) Dietary supplements may contain any of the colouring sub- stances (and, where appropriate, their aluminium lakes) speci- fied in the table of this subclause and no others.
Table of subclause (2) Common name Allura Red AC Aluminium Amaranth Annatto extracts (bixin, norbixin) Anthocyanins Beet red (betanin) β-carotene β-apo-8’-carotenol β-apo-8’-carotenoic acid, and its ethyl and methyl esters Brilliant Black PN 14 Index name CI Food Red 17 Index number 16035 CI Food Red 9 CI Natural Orange 4 CI Food Orange 5 CI Food Orange 6 CI Food Orange 7 CI Food Black 1 77000 16185 75120 40800 40820 40825 28440 Reprinted as at 31 March 2010 Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985 Part 2 r 15 Common name Brilliant Blue FCF Brown HT Canthaxanthin Caramel Index name CI Food Blue 2 CI Food Brown 3 CI Food Orange 8 Carmoisine (azorubine) CI Food Red 3 Chlorophyll CI Natural Green 3 Chlorophyll copper complex Chlorophyllin copper complex, potassium and sodium salts Cochineal (carminic acid) Erythrosine Fast Green FCF Gold Grape skin extracts Green S CI Natural Red 4 CI Food Red 14 CI Food Green 3 CI Food Green 4 Indigotine (indigo carmine) CI Food Blue 1 CI Pigment Red 101 & 102 CI Pigment Yellow 42 & 43 CI Pigment Black 11 CI Food Red 7 Iron oxides and hydrated iron oxides Paprika (paprika oleoresin) (capsanthin and capsorubin) Ponceau 4R Riboflavin (lactoflavin) Riboflavin-5-phosphate Saffron (crocin, crocetin) CI Natural Yellow 6 & 19 Silver Sunset Yellow FCF Tartrazine Titanium dioxide CI Food Yellow 3 CI Food Yellow 4 Turmeric (curcumin) CI Natural Yellow 3 Xanthophylls CI Natural Yellow 27 Index number 42090 20285 40850 14720 75810 75470 45430 42053 77480 44090 73015 77491 77492 77499 16255 75100 77820 15985 19140 77891 75300 75135 Note: The index numbers specified in the third column of this table are the numbers allotted in the current edition of the Colour Index published jointly by the Society of Dyers and 15 Part 2 r 16 Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985 Reprinted as at 31 March 2010 Colourists of the United Kingdom and the Association of Tex- tile Chemists and Colorists of the United States of America.
16 (1) Artificial sweeteners In these regulations artificial sweetener means any substance that when added to a dietary supplement, is capable of im- parting sweetness to that dietary supplement, and that is not a saccharide, polyhydric alcohol, or honey.

(2) Dietary supplements may contain any of the following artifi- cial sweeteners and no others: • • aspartame: saccharin and its sodium, and calcium and ammonium compounds: sodium cyclamate and calcium cyclamate.
• 17 (1) Flavouring substances In these regulations flavouring substance means any whole- some substance that, when added or applied to a dietary sup- plement, is capable of imparting flavours to, or enhancing flavours in, that dietary supplement.

(2) Dietary supplements may contain any flavouring substance, except the following: cade oil: • coumarin: • nitrobenzene: • pyroligneous acid: • safrole and isosafrole: • sassafras oil.
• Vitamins The dietary supplements specified in the first column of the table of this subclause, or any compound of those supplements, and no others, may be described as vitamins, and the quantity of vitamins in those dietary supplements shall be calculated in accordance with the second column of that table.
Table of subclause (1) 18 (1) 16 Reprinted as at 31 March 2010 Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985 Part 2 r 19 Dietary supplement described as vitamins or containing vitamins Vitamin A or retinol Vitamin B1 or thiamine Vitamin B2 or riboflavin Niacin or nicotinic acid Pantothenic acid Vitamin B6 or pyridoxine Vitamin B12 or cyanocobalamin, or hydroxycobalamin Vitamin C or ascorbic acid Vitamin D2 or calciferol Vitamin D3 or cholecalciferol Vitamin E Biotin Vitamin K Vitamin K1 or phytomenadione Vitamin K3 or menaphthone Folic acid Calculated as retinol in mcg thiamine in mg riboflavine in mg niacin equivalents in mg pantothenic acid in mg pyridoxine in mg vitamin B12 in mcg ascorbic acid in mg calciferol in mcg cholecalciferol in mcg vitamin E in mg biotin in mcg vitamin K in mcg vitamin K1 in mcg vitamin K3 in mcg folic acid in mcg (2) (3) If the quantity of vitamins in a dietary supplement is declared on a label, it shall be stated to an accuracy of not greater than 3 significant figures.
There may be marked on any package or container containing a dietary supplement, described as or containing a vitamin, a statement indicating— (a) (b) the presence of vitamins; and the quantity, calculated in accordance with the table of subclause (1), of that vitamin in that package or con- tainer or in each dosage unit, or, where the dietary sup- plement is divided into a number of units, the quantity of that vitamin in each unit.
19 Minerals (1) The following dietary supplements may be described as min- erals: 17 Part 2 r 20 Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985 Reprinted as at 31 March 2010 calcium: chlorine: chromium: copper: fluorine: iodine: iron: magnesium: manganese: molybdenum: phosphorus: potassium: selenium: sodium: zinc.
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • If the quantity of minerals in a dietary supplement is declared on a label, it shall be stated in milligrams or micrograms to an accuracy of not greater than 3 significant figures.
There may be marked on any package or container containing a dietary supplement described as or containing a mineral, a statement indicating— (a) (b) the presence of minerals; and the quantity of that mineral in that package or container or in each dosage unit, or, where the dietary supplement is divided into a number of units the quantity of that mineral in each unit.
Enzymes The following enzymes may be added to dietary supplements: amylase and protease derived from Aspergillus flavus • oryzae or Aspergillus niger: bromelin: ficin: invertase: papain: pectinase: • • • • • (2) (3) 20 18 Reprinted as at 31 March 2010 Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985 • • • • pepsin: rennet and protein—coagulating enzymes: lactase: lipase.
Part 3 Offences and penalty 21 (1) (2) Offences and penalty Every person who contravenes or fails to comply with any of the provisions of regulations 3, 4, 5(6), 13(2), 14(2), 15(2), 16(2), 17(2), and 18(1) commits an offence against these regu- lations.

Every person who commits an offence against these regula- tions is liable to a fine not exceeding $500, and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $50 for every day on which the offence has continued.
P G Millen, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.

Date of notification in Gazette: 22 August 1985.


19 Notes Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985 Reprinted as at 31 March 2010 Contents 1 2 3 4 General Status of reprints How reprints are prepared Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first) General This is a reprint of the Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985.
The reprint incorporates all the amendments to the regulations as at 31 March 2010, as specified in the list of amendments at the end of these notes.

Relevant provisions of any amending enactments that contain transitional, savings, or application provisions that cannot be compiled in the reprint are also included, after the principal enactment, in chronological order.

For more information, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/reprints/.
Status of reprints Under section 16D of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by the amendments to that enactment.

This presumption applies even though editorial changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in the reprint.
This presumption may be rebutted by producing the official volumes of statutes or statutory regulations in which the prin- cipal enactment and its amendments are contained.

How reprints are prepared A number of editorial conventions are followed in the prep- aration of reprints.

For example, the enacting words are not included in Acts, and provisions that are repealed or revoked 5 Notes 1 2 3 20 Reprinted as at 31 March 2010 Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985 Notes are omitted.
For a detailed list of the editorial conventions, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/ or Part 8 of the Tables of New Zealand Acts and Ordinances and Statutory Regulations and Deemed Regulations in Force.
4 Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 Section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 authorises the making of editorial changes in a reprint as set out in sections 17D and 17E of that Act so that, to the extent permitted, the format and style of the reprinted enactment is consistent with current legislative drafting practice.

Changes that would alter the effect of the legislation are not permitted.
A new format of legislation was introduced on 1 January 2000.

Changes to legislative drafting style have also been made since 1997, and are ongoing.

To the extent permitted by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, all legisla- tion reprinted after 1 January 2000 is in the new format for legislation and reflects current drafting practice at the time of the reprint.
In outline, the editorial changes made in reprints under the au- thority of section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 are set out below, and they have been applied, where relevant, in the preparation of this reprint: • omission of unnecessary referential words (such as “of this section” and “of this Act”) typeface and type size (Times Roman, generally in 11.5 point) layout of provisions, including: • • indentation position of section headings (eg, the number and heading now appear above the section) format of definitions (eg, the defined term now appears in bold type, without quotation marks) format of dates (eg, a date formerly expressed as “the 1st day of January 1999” is now expressed as “1 January 1999”) 21 • • • • Notes Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985 Reprinted as at 31 March 2010 • • • • • • • position of the date of assent (it now appears on the front page of each Act) punctuation (eg, colons are not used after definitions) Parts numbered with roman numerals are replaced with arabic numerals, and all cross-references are changed accordingly case and appearance of letters and words, including: • format of headings (eg, headings where each word formerly appeared with an initial cap- ital letter followed by small capital letters are amended so that the heading appears in bold, with only the first word (and any proper nouns) appearing with an initial capital letter) small capital letters in section and subsection ref- erences are now capital letters • schedules are renumbered (eg, Schedule 1 replaces First Schedule), and all cross-references are changed accord- ingly running heads (the information that appears at the top of each page) format of two-column schedules of consequential amendments, and schedules of repeals (eg, they are rearranged into alphabetical order, rather than chrono- logical).
List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first) Dietary Supplements Amendment Regulations 2010 (SR 2010/5) Dietary Supplements Regulations 1985, Amendment No 1 (SR 1986 /378) Wellington, New Zealand: Published under the authority of the New Zealand Government—2011 5 12 22