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CLAUSE NOTES
Food Amendment Bill 2015
Clause 1 Short title.
Clause 2 Provides that the Bill, if passed, will commence on a date to be proclaimed.
Clause 3 Provides that the Principal Act amended by the Bill is the Food Act 2003
(referred to in these clause notes as ‘the Act’).
Clause 4 Amends section 4(1) of the Act by:
(a) inserting a new definition. The definition is of a ‘mobile structure’ and
includes a wide group of configurations. This phrase will be inserted into
section 88 to extend the application of that section from ‘in a vehicle’ to ‘in,
at or from a mobile structure’. See clause 5 below; and
(b) amending the definition of ‘premises’. This amendment extends the
definition of premises to include ‘a mobile structure’.
This extended definition is relevant to s87(4)(a) whereby applicants seeking
to register their food business may be required by a council to provide design
and fitout specifications about proposed food handling ‘premises’.
Authorised officers have the capacity under the Act to enter and inspect
‘premises’ and issue improvement and prohibition orders if necessary.
Clause 5 Replaces section 88 with a new section. The effect of this clause is to extend
the benefit of single certificate registration from food businesses ‘conducted
in a vehicle’ to the broader group of food businesses conducted ‘in, at or
from a mobile structure’.
Clause 6 This is a standard clause repealing the Amendment Bill, as the substance of
the Bill is incorporated into the relevant Act on commencement.
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