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Food Act 2014

Miscellaneous provisions - Transitional provisions - Pre-commencement

424: Pre-commencement food safety officers

You could also call this:

"People doing food safety work before a certain date can keep doing their job for a little while longer."

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If you were doing a job that is similar to a food safety officer before a certain date, you can keep doing that job. You are a food safety officer for the purposes of doing those similar tasks until a certain date. This date is either when your old job finishes or six months after the certain date, whichever is later.

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Part 5Miscellaneous provisions
Transitional provisions: Pre-commencement

424Pre-commencement food safety officers

  1. This section applies to a person who, immediately before the relevant appointed date, is entitled to perform or exercise any function, duty, or power that is substantially similar to a function, duty, or power that a person appointed as a food safety officer under this Act may perform or exercise.

  2. The person is a food safety officer for the purposes of exercising or performing those substantially similar functions, duties, and powers under this Act until the later of the following dates:

  3. the end date of the appointment he or she held immediately before the relevant appointed date:
    1. the date that is 6 months after that relevant appointed date.