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Registration for log traders and forestry advisers

Update – 27 June 2022

This consultation closed on 17 January 2022. Cabinet has since made decisions about the registration of log traders and forestry advisers.

Find out about registration and Cabinet decisions

Summary of consultation submissions on registration for log traders and forestry advisers [PDF, 12 MB]

About this consultation

In 2020, the Forests (Regulation of Log Traders and Forestry Advisers) Amendment Act was passed by Parliament. This Act establishes a Forestry Authority and a registration system for log traders and forestry advisers.

We sought your feedback on the proposed rules and regulations to create a basic registration system for log traders and forestry advisers.

Basic registration requirements will establish:

  • who is entitled to register
  • matters to take into account in the ‘fit and proper person’ test
  • initial obligations for log traders and forestry advisers
  • processes for complaints and disputes, and
  • information to be displayed on the public registers.

We invited your comments on the proposals in the consultation document:

  • the design of the registration system for log traders and forestry advisers
  • the regulations that registered log traders and forestry advisers will have to comply with.

From 6 August 2022, there is a one-year transition period for log traders and forestry advisers to get registered.

From 6 August 2023, it will be an offence to operate as a log trader or forestry adviser without being registered.

Consultation document

Registration for log traders and forestry advisers: Proposed regulations under the Act [PDF, 2.1 MB]

Related information

Video explaining the proposals relating to the registration of log traders – YouTube   

Video explaining proposals relating to the registration of forestry advisers – YouTube

Registration of forestry professionals

Submissions are public information

Note that all, part, or a summary of your submission may be published on this website. Most often this happens when we issue a document that reviews the submissions received.

People can also ask for copies of submissions under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA). The OIA says we must make the content of submissions available unless we have good reason for withholding it. Those reasons are detailed in sections 6 and 9 of the OIA.

If you think there are grounds to withhold specific information from publication, make this clear in your submission or contact us. Reasons may include that it discloses commercially sensitive or personal information. However, any decision MPI makes to withhold details can be reviewed by the Ombudsman, who may direct us to release it.

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