Food Act 2014

Miscellaneous provisions - Transitional provisions - Early commencement

419: Early commencement food safety officers

You could also call this:

"Some food safety workers can start their new roles early under the Food Act 2014."

When you read about the Food Act 2014, you will see that it talks about people called food safety officers. These officers have special jobs, like making sure people follow food safety rules, which are called specified functions, duties, or powers. You can find out more about what these rules are by looking at the powers in provisions that section 2(3)(a) applies to.

If you were already doing a job that is similar to a food safety officer's job when the Food Act 2014 became law, then you are treated as a food safety officer. This means you can keep doing your job, with the same responsibilities, under the new law. You will keep doing this until section 276 of the Food Act 2014 starts.

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

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

420: Pre-commencement legislative requirements: Food Act 1981 and regulations, or

"Old food laws that still apply after the new Food Act 2014 starts"

Part 5Miscellaneous provisions
Transitional provisions: Early commencement

419Early commencement food safety officers

In this section, specified function, duty, or power means a function, duty, or power that a person appointed as a food safety officer under this Act may perform or exercise in the enforcement of obligations imposed under a power in a provision to which section 2(3)(a) applies.
This section applies to a person who, on the date on which this Act receives the Royal assent, is entitled to perform or exercise any function, duty, or power that is substantially similar to a specified function, duty, or power.
The person must be treated as a food safety officer for the purposes of performing or exercising the substantially similar functions, duties, and powers under this Act until the commencement of section 276.