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Food Act 2014

Food imported for purpose of sale - Registration of importers

116: Criteria for approval of application for registration

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"How to get approved to import food: meeting the rules and being a suitable person"

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When you apply to register as a food importer, the chief executive must approve your application if it meets the rules in section 113 and they think you are a suitable person. They decide this by looking at things like whether you or the people in charge of your business have been convicted of certain crimes. The chief executive also considers whether you or the people in charge of your business have failed to follow the rules for importers in section 110 or section 111 in the past. They think about whether you will follow the rules in the future and look at any other important information. A significant shareholder is someone who owns enough shares in your business to control what it does.

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Part 3Food imported for purpose of sale
Registration of importers

116Criteria for approval of application for registration

  1. The chief executive must approve an application for registration that complies with section 113 if satisfied that the applicant is a fit and proper person to be registered as an importer.

  2. In determining whether an applicant is a fit and proper person for the purposes of subsection (1), the chief executive may take into account the following matters:

  3. any specified conviction entered against the applicant or against any director, manager, or significant shareholder of the applicant:
    1. whether there has in the past been a serious or repeated failure by the applicant, or by any director, manager, or significant shareholder of the applicant, to comply with the duties of an importer in section 110 or the duty of a registered importer in section 111:
      1. whether there are other grounds for considering that the applicant is likely in the future to fail to comply with those duties:
        1. any other matters that the chief executive considers relevant.

          1. In this section, significant shareholder means a shareholder whose shareholding in the applicant enables the shareholder to exercise control over the affairs of the applicant.