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Food Amendment (Meat Grading) Bill
2008
No , 2008
A Bill for
An Act to amend the Food Act 2003 with respect to the advertising, packaging and
labelling of meat.
Clause 1 Food Amendment (Meat Grading) Bill 2008
The Legislature of New South Wales enacts: 1
1 Name of Act 2
This Act is the Food Amendment (Meat Grading) Act 2008. 3
2 Commencement 4
This Act commences on the date of assent to this Act. 5
3 Amendment of Food Act 2003 No 43 6
The Food Act 2003 is amended as set out in Schedule 1. 7
4 Repeal of Act 8
(1) This Act is repealed on the day following the day on which this Act 9
commences. 10
(2) The repeal of this Act does not, because of the operation of section 30 11
of the Interpretation Act 1987, affect any amendment made by this Act. 12
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Food Amendment (Meat Grading) Bill 2008
Amendment Schedule 1
Schedule 1 Amendment 1
(Section 3) 2
Section 22 False or misleading descriptions of food 3
Insert after section 22 (2): 4
(3) Without limiting the application of subsection (1) of this section 5
to section 18 (2), meat is falsely described for the purposes of 6
section 18 (2) if: 7
(a) it is described by means of AUS-MEAT language that is 8
referable to meat of a particular type or grade, and 9
(b) it has not been assessed in accordance with the 10
requirements of the Users' Guide to Australian Meat, or 11
does not comply with the standards set out in the Users' 12
Guide to Australian Meat, with respect to meat of that type 13
or grade. 14
(4) For the purposes of this Part, a person carrying on a food business 15
is taken to have engaged in conduct that is misleading or 16
deceptive (or is likely to mislead or deceive) in relation to the 17
advertising, packaging or labelling of meat intended for sale, or 18
in relation to the sale of meat, if: 19
(a) the person advertises, packages, labels or sells meat 20
described by means of AUS-MEAT language, and 21
(b) other meat advertised, packaged, labelled or sold by that 22
person is described by any other means. 23
(5) In this section: 24
AUS-MEAT language means any words, letters or symbols that 25
(whether alone, in combination or together with other words, 26
letters or symbols) are used by the Users' Guide to Australian 27
Meat to designate or indicate meat as belonging to a particular 28
type or grade. 29
meat means flesh from the carcase of: 30
(a) any bovine animal, or 31
(b) any other animal to which the Users' Guide to Australian 32
Meat applies whose flesh is declared by the regulations to 33
be meat for the purposes of subsection (3). 34
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Food Amendment (Meat Grading) Bill 2008
Schedule 1 Amendment
Users' Guide to Australian Meat means the document published 1
under that title by AUS-MEAT Limited (ACN 082 528 881), as 2
that document is in force from time to time. 3
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