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in carrying out operations to prepare prescribed meat or meat products for export.
Note 2: The holder of the approved arrangement may commit an offence or be liable to a civil penalty under section 163 of the Act if:
(a) the approved arrangement needs to be varied to provide for an alternative procedure, standard or other requirement to be implemented in carrying out operations to prepare prescribed meat or meat products for export; and
(b) the variation is implemented; and
(c) the variation has not been approved by the Secretary under paragraph 161(2)(a) of the Act, or the variation has been approved under that paragraph but the Secretary has not given the holder notice of the approval under section 162 of the Act.

Chapter 2—Exporting goods

Part 1—Goods

Division 1—Prescribed goods

2‑1  Meat and meat products that are prescribed goods
 (1) For the purposes of subsection 28(1) of the Act and subject to subsections (3) and (4) of this section, goods that:
 (a) are meat or meat products derived from a bovine animal, bubaline animal, camelid animal, caprine animal, cervid animal, ovine animal, porcine animal or soliped animal; and
 (b) are intended to be exported as food;
are prescribed for the purposes of the Act.
Note 1: Examples of animals referred to in paragraph (a) are cattle and bison (bovine animals), Asian water buffalo (bubaline animals), camels (camelid animals), goats (caprine animals), deer (cervid animals), sheep (ovine animals), pigs (porcine animals) and horses and donkeys (soliped animals).
Note 2: For food, see section 12 of the Act.
Note 3: Meat or meat products covered by this subsection are taken not to be prescribed goods for the purposes of the Act in the circumstances prescribed by section 2‑2 of this instrument (see the definition of prescribed goods in section 12 of the Act).
 (2) If:
 (a) meat or meat products of a kind referred to in a paragraph of subsection (3) are intended to be exported to a country (the importing country) as food; and
 (b) for the purpose of meeting an importing country requirement of that country, one or more requirements of the Act must be complied with;
then, for the purposes of subsection 28(1) of the Act, the meat or meat products that are intended to be exported to the importing country are prescribed for the purposes of the Act.
Example: Meat extracts would be prescribed meat products if a requirement of the Act would need to be complied with in relation to the meat extracts for the purpose of meeting an importing country requirement.
Note: The Act will apply to meat and meat products to which this subsection applies in the same way as it applies to goods