Health licences
Index of health licences
Offensive trade licences
Get a licence for a new premises
Offensive trades include:
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Blood or offal treating
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Bone boiling or crushing
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Collection and storage of used bottles for sale
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Dag crushing
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Fell mongering
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Fish cleaning
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Fish curing
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Flax pulping
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Flock manufacturing or teasing of textile
materials for any purpose
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Gut scraping and treating
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Nightsoil collection and disposal
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Refuse collection and disposal
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Septic tanks desludging and disposal of
sludge
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Slaughtering of animals for any purpose
other than human consumption
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Storage, drying or preserving of bones,
hides, hoofs, or skins
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Tallow melting
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Tanning
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Wood pulping
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Wool scouring
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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 Council.
Fees to licence a new premises are
- an administration fee for any new premises of $371 (inclusive GST); and
- an annual registration fee of $340 (inc GST).
Take over an existing premises
If you take over an existing premises, you must notify us and complete a
registration form.
If there is an existing licence then you can apply to
transfer this licence into your name. Transfer fee applications cost $80
(inclusive GST). Applications must be received within 14 days of you taking over
the business. After this period, the licence lapses and can not be transferred.
If there is no current licence then a new licence needs to be applied for.
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:
The renewal fee is $340 (inclusive GST).
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
$371 (inclusive GST).
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 2011