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Food Act 2014

Miscellaneous provisions - Transitional provisions - Preliminary

418: Regulations specifying or extending end date of authorised transition period

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"Rules about when food businesses must follow new safety rules"

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The Governor-General can make rules about when food businesses must start following new safety rules. You need to know that these rules can say when food businesses in a certain area must be following the new rules. The rules can also change the date when food businesses must start following the new rules.

The Governor-General can also make rules about what food businesses must do to follow the new safety rules. You have to follow these rules if you are a food business in a certain area. If you do not follow the rules, you may have to stop operating as a food business.

The rules can also say what else food businesses must do to make sure they are following the new safety rules. If the Governor-General makes these rules, food businesses must comply with them. This means you must follow the rules or you may not be able to operate as a food business.

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Part 5Miscellaneous provisions
Transitional provisions: Preliminary

418Regulations specifying or extending end date of authorised transition period

  1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister, make regulations—

  2. specifying the end date of the authorised transition period for a food sector or a class of food sectors, which is the date by which the food businesses in that food sector or those food sectors must be operating under their applicable risk-based measures:
    1. extending the end date of the authorised transition period for a food sector or a class of food sectors to any date up to the end of this Act's introductory period:
      1. specifying the steps that the food businesses in the food sector or class of food sectors must take to ensure that they are subject to the applicable risk-based measure by the end date:
        1. specifying any other steps that may be necessary or desirable for the transition of food businesses to operating under applicable risk-based measures.

          1. Every food business in a food sector must comply with regulations made under this section or stop operating as a food business.