Health licences

Index of health licences

Offensive trade licences

Get a licence for a new premises
Take over an existing premises
Renew your licence

Get a licence for a new premises

Offensive trades include:

Blood or offal treating
Bone boiling or crushing
Collection and storage of used bottles for sale
Dag crushing
Fell mongering
Fish cleaning
Fish curing
Flax pulping
Flock manufacturing or teasing of textile materials for any purpose
Gut scraping and treating

Nightsoil collection and disposal
Refuse collection and disposal
Septic tanks desludging and disposal of sludge
Slaughtering of animals for any purpose other than human consumption
Storage, drying or preserving of bones, hides, hoofs, or skins
Tallow melting
Tanning
Wood pulping
Wool scouring

Before you apply for a licence, we recommend that you contact us first to discuss your plans.

Then download and complete the Registration of offensive trades - application form (132k PDF) and send your registration form and fee to Auckland City Council.

There is a $130 administration fee for any new premises plus an annual registration fee of $301. The total payable to licence a new premises is $431.

Take over an existing premises

If you take over an existing premises, you must notify us and complete a registration form. The transfer fee is $72.

If you want to transfer the licence and it has expired, or if it is due for renewal, you have 14 days to do so. After this period, the licence can not be transferred or renewed and you will have to apply for a new licence at an additional cost of $130.

Renew your licence

Licences expire on 31 July each year, you will receive a renewal application from us before this.

When you receive it, you must apply for renewal within 14 days of the expiry date by:

returning the renewal notice and payment to Auckland City Council. Cheques should be made out to Auckland City Council
visiting any Auckland City Council service centre
renewing online if you have received an invoice. An invoice will be sent to you if you return your registration form without payment attached.

The renewal fee is $301.

If we have not received your application within 14 days, the licence will lapse and you will need to apply for a new licence at an additional cost of $130.

Offensive trades are required to be registered and inspected under the the Health Act 1956, the Health (Registration of Premises) Regulations 1966 and Auckland City consolidate Bylaws 1991.

Updated July 2008