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Food Act 2014

Risk-based measures - General - Requirement to operate under applicable risk-based measure

31: Exemption from food control plan and national programme if trading in food for certain fund-raising

You could also call this:

"Raising money for a good cause? You might not need to follow usual food safety rules."

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If you trade in food to raise money for a good cause, this law applies to you. You must be raising money for a charitable, benevolent, philanthropic, or cultural purpose, and you can only do this type of fund-raising up to 20 times in a year.

If you follow these rules, you do not have to follow the usual food safety rules, like having a food control plan.

This law has some extra conditions that you can read about in section 32.

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Part 2Risk-based measures
General: Requirement to operate under applicable risk-based measure

31Exemption from food control plan and national programme if trading in food for certain fund-raising

  1. This section applies if—

  2. a person or group of persons trades in food for the sole purpose of raising money for a charitable, benevolent, philanthropic, or cultural purpose; and
    1. the fund-raising activity is not carried out on more than 20 occasions in any calendar year (unless it is incidental to another charitable, benevolent, or philanthropic activity, such as a permanent stall selling donated goods at a hospice).

      1. To the extent that the person or group is engaged in any trading described in subsection (1), the person or group is exempt from the requirement to operate under a registered food control plan or a national programme.

      2. This section is subject to section 32.