Pursuant to section 49B of the Hazardous Substances
and New Organisms Act 1996, I hereby give notice that
I have declared an adverse event, the incursion of an
exotic subterranean termite Coptotermes sp., to be a special emergency until 31 December 2007.
Dated at Wellington this 23rd day of January 2007.
JIM ANDERTON, Minister for Biosecurity.