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Food Act 2014

Provisions relating to recognition, territorial authorities, administration, and enforcement - Recognised agencies, persons, and classes of persons - Surrender of recognition

165: Surrender of recognition

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"Giving up your recognised status as an agency or person"

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If you are a recognised agency or person, you can give up your recognition by sending a written notice to the chief executive. You need to say in the notice when you want the surrender to take effect. When you decide to surrender your recognition, you have to tell certain people before it happens. You must tell the people you work with, like other recognised persons or agencies, that you are surrendering your recognition. You also need to tell your clients that you will no longer be a recognised agency or person, so they know what is happening.

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Part 4Provisions relating to recognition, territorial authorities, administration, and enforcement
Recognised agencies, persons, and classes of persons: Surrender of recognition

165Surrender of recognition

  1. A recognised agency or recognised person may—

  2. surrender his, her, or its recognition by written notice to the chief executive; and
    1. specify in the notice a future date on which the surrender is to take effect.

      1. Before the date on which a surrender takes effect, the recognised agency or recognised person that is surrendering his, her, or its recognition must,—

      2. for a recognised agency, notify the surrender to any recognised persons for whom the agency is responsible; and
        1. for a recognised person, notify the surrender to any recognised agency that is responsible for that person; and
          1. take reasonable steps to notify each person who will be a client of the agency or person immediately before the surrender that the agency's or person’s recognition is surrendered.