Tasmanian Numbered Acts Tasmanian Numbered Acts
- Act 30 of 1998
- Royal Assent 21 July 1998
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
PART 1 - Preliminary
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Interpretation
4. Act binds Crown
5. Act prevails
6. Declarations
7. Application of Act
8. Exemptions
PART 2 - Administration Division 1 - Director and authorised
officers
9. General functions and powers of Director
10. Delegation by Director
11. Authorised officers
12. Functions of authorised officers
13. Orders to prevent danger to public health
14. Order prohibiting cultivation of food from certain areas
15. Assistance of authorised officers
Division 2 - Food Advisory Council
16. Food Advisory Council
17. Function of Food Advisory Council
18. Reports of Food Advisory Council
Division 3 - Councils
19. Functions of councils
20. Orders relating to functions
21. Power over wharves
Division 4 - Powers of councils and authorised officers
22. Entry, inspection and seizure
23. Certificate of authority
24. Production of records
25. Production of things
26. Photographs, sketches, measurements and recordings
27. Information requirements
PART 3 - food quality
28. Food unfit for human consumption
29. Ensuring food is fit for human consumption
30. False or misleading description
31. Prescribed standard
32. Demands of purchaser
33. Food wrongly packed
34. Labelling
PART 4 - food safety Division 1 - Cleanliness
35. Clean equipment
36. Cleanliness of premises, vehicles, equipment
37. Notice requiring certain action
Division 2 - Food handling
38. Standard of hygiene
39. Handling food while diseased
Division 3 - Manufacture of food
40. Manufacturing food
PART 5 - Samples, analysis and testing Division 1 - Samples
41. Providing samples
42. Procedure for samples
Division 2 - Analysis and testing
43. Authorised laboratories
44. List of authorised laboratories
45. Notification of connection with manufacture or sale of food
46. Revocation of authorisation
47. Method of analysis
48. Order for analysis
49. Certificate of analysis
50. Use of results of analysis
51. Testing facilities
52. Results of testing
Division 3 - Delegation
53. Delegation
PART 6 - Registration, licences and accreditations Division 1 -
Registration of premises, vehicles and equipment
54. Registration of premises, vehicles and equipment
55. Application for registration
56. Grant or refusal of registration
57. Issue of certificate of registration
58. Operation of registered premises, vehicle and equipment
59. Duration of registration
60. Renewal of registration
61. Variation of registration
62. Cancellation of registration
Division 2 - Licence to manufacture or sell food
63. Licence to manufacture or sell food
64. Application for licence
65. Grant or refusal of licence
66. Issue of licence
67. Manufacturing and selling food
68. Duration of licence
69. Renewal of licence
70. Variation of licence
71. Cancellation of licence
Division 3 - Accreditation of food handlers
72. Accreditation as food handler
73. Application for accreditation
74. Grant or refusal of accreditation
75. Issue of certificate of accreditation
76. Operating as food handler
77. Duration of accreditation
78. Renewal of accreditation
79. Variation of accreditation
80. Cancellation of accreditation
PART 7 - Offences
81. Advertising
82. Dispatch of food
83. Interference with marks
84. Offences against authorised officers
85. Inciting and encouraging
86. Offences by corporations
87. Liability of employers
88. Liability of employees and agents
PART 8 - Legal proceedings and evidence Division 1 - Proceedings
89. Proceedings instituted
90. Disclosure of source of information
91. Onus of proof
92. Proof for conviction
Division 2 - Presumptions and evidence
93. Presumptions about food
94. Presumption about samples
95. Presumption about importation and manufacture
96. Copies as evidence
97. Certificate of analysis
Division 3 - Miscellaneous matters
98. Forfeiture
99. Sale or disposal of forfeited things
100. Return of and access to seized things
101. Sale or disposal of seized things
102. Defences relating to analysis
103. Additional penalty
104. Liability for costs
Division 4 - Infringement notices
105. Service of infringement notice
106. Form of infringement notice
107. Acceptance of infringement notice
108. Extension of acceptance period
109. Payment
110. Payments to council or Consolidated Fund
111. Effect of acceptance
112. Withdrawal of infringement notice
113. Certain evidence not admissible
PART 9 - Regulatory provisions
114. Regulations in general
115. Regulations of savings or transitional nature
116. Regulations relating to samples
117. Regulations relating to analysis
118. Regulations relating to testing
119. Regulations relating to hygiene
120. Regulations relating to packaging, labels and names
121. Regulations relating to premises and equipment
122. Regulations relating to processes
123. Regulations relating to fees and charges
124. Regulations relating to miscellaneous matters
125. Standards
126. Guidelines
127. Confirmation or disallowance of guidelines
128. Council fees
PART 10 - Miscellaneous Division 1 - Orders
129. Compliance with orders
130. Orders
Division 2 - Compensation and costs
131. Compensation
132. Costs incurred in exercising powers
Division 3 - Information
133. Disclosure of information
134. Requirement for information
135. False and misleading statements
Division 4 - Warranty
136. Implied warranty
137. Defences in relation to warranty
138. Concurrent proceedings
Division 5 - Appeals
139. Appeals against orders
140. Appeals against notices
141. Appeal relating to registration
142. Appeals relating to licence to manufacture or sell food
143. Appeal relating to accreditation
144. Appeal relating to seizure
145. Determination of appeal
146. Appeal to Supreme Court
Division 6 - Miscellaneous matters
147. Immunity from liability
148. Certificates and licences under repealed Act
149. Administration of Act
150. Public Health Act 1962 repealed
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