{"id":"sr:food-forms-and-registration-regulations-2025","name":"Food (Forms and Registration) Regulations 2025","slug":"food-forms-and-registration-regulations-2025","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"vic","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":183845,"registerId":"vic-sr:food-forms-and-registration-regulations-2025-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-05","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Food (Forms and Registration) Regulations 2025","content":"Version No. 001\n\n**Food (Forms and Registration) Regulations 2025**\n\n**S.R. No. 96/2025**\n\nVersion as at  \n17 November 2025\n\n**TABLE OF PROVISIONS**\n\n*Regulation Page*\n\n1 Objective 1\n\n2 Authorising provision 1\n\n3 Commencement 1\n\n4 Revocation 1\n\n5 Definition 1\n\n6 Notice of seizure and detention of an article 1\n\n7 Application for an order directing the release of a detained article 2\n\n8 Certificate of analysis of article 2\n\n9 Certificate of registration of food premises 2\n\n10 Records of registration of food premises 2\n\nSchedule 1—Notice of seizure and detention of an article 3\n\nSchedule 2—Application for an order directing the release of a detained article 4\n\nSchedule 3—Certificate of analysis of article 5\n\nSchedule 4—Certificate of registration of food premises 6\n\nSchedule 5—Records of registration of food premises 7\n\n═════════════\n\nEndnotes 8\n\n1 General information 8\n\n2 Table of Amendments 10\n\n3 Explanatory details 11\n\n**Version No.** **001**\n\n**Food (Forms and Registration) Regulations 2025**\n\n**S.R. No. 96/2025**\n\nVersion as at  \n17 November 2025\n\n\t1 Objective\n\nThe objective of these Regulations is to prescribe the form of various documents and particulars of registered food premises required under the **Food Act 1984**.\n\n\t2 Authorising provision\n\nThese Regulations are made under section 63 of the **Food Act 1984**.\n\n\t3 Commencement\n\nThese Regulations come into operation on 17 November 2025.\n\n\t4 Revocation\n\nThe Food (Forms and Registration) Regulations 2015[[1]](#endnote-1) are **revoked**.\n\n\t5 Definition\n\nIn these Regulations—\n\n***the Act*** means the **Food Act 1984**.\n\n\t6 Notice of seizure and detention of an article\n\nFor the purposes of section 24 of the Act, the prescribed form for a notice of the seizure and detention of an article is set out in Schedule 1.\n\n\t7 Application for an order directing the release of a detained article\n\nFor the purposes of section 26(1) of the Act, the prescribed form for an application for an order directing the release of a detained article is set out in Schedule 2.\n\n\t8 Certificate of analysis of article\n\nFor the purposes of sections 31(c) and 31A(3)(a) of the Act, the prescribed form for a certificate of the analysis of an article is set out in Schedule 3.\n\n\t9 Certificate of registration of food premises\n\nFor the purposes of section 40(1) of the Act, the required form for a certificate of registration of a food premises is set out in Schedule 4.\n\n\t10 Records of registration of food premises\n\nFor the purposes of section 43(1) of the Act, the prescribed particulars for the registration or renewal of registration of a food premises are set out in Schedule 5.\n\nSchedule 1—Notice of seizure and detention of an article\n\nRegulation 6\n\n**Food Act 1984**\n\nFood (Forms and Registration) Regulations 2025\n\nNOTICE OF SEIZURE AND DETENTION OF AN ARTICLE\n\nTo [*insert full name*]\n\nof [*insert address*]\n\nI, [*insert name of authorized officer*] of [*insert address of authorized officer*],\n\nbeing an authorized officer under the **Food Act 1984**, give notice that I have at [*time a.m./p.m.*] this day seized and detained the article(s) described below.\n\nDescription of article(s):\n\nGrounds for seizure:\n\nIMPORTANT NOTICE\n\nUnless you, or a person claiming the article(s), apply to the Magistrates' Court **within 7 days** after this seizure for an order directing the release of the detained article(s) in the form of Schedule 2 to the Food (Forms and Registration) Regulations 2025, the seized and detained article(s) will be destroyed or otherwise disposed of.\n\nSignature of authorized officer:\n\nDate:\n\nSchedule 2—Application for an order directing the release of a detained article\n\nRegulation 7\n\n**Food Act 1984**\n\nFood (Forms and Registration) Regulations 2025\n\nAPPLICATION FOR AN ORDER DIRECTING THE RELEASE OF A DETAINED ARTICLE\n\nIn the Magistrates' Court of Victoria at [*insert venue*]\n\nI, [*insert full name*]\n\nof [*insert address*]\n\napply for an order directing the release from detention of the article(s) described below and seized on [*date*] at [*address*] and detained by an authorized officer under section 21 of the **Food Act 1984**.\n\nDescription of article(s):\n\nName of authorized officer who seized and detained the article(s):\n\nGrounds for the application:\n\nSignature:\n\nDate:\n\n**Notes:**\n\n1. Any application for an order directing the release of any detained article(s) must be made **within 7 days** after the seizure of that article.\n\n2. You must immediately give a copy of this application to the authorized officer responsible for the seizure and detention of the article(s).\n\n3. The Magistrates' Court shall disallow the seizure and direct the release of the article(s) if the Court is satisfied that:\n\n(a) the authorized officer did not have reasonable grounds for believing that the article(s) was in contravention of a provision of the **Food Act 1984**; or\n\n(b) the article(s) was not in contravention of any provision of the **Food Act 1984**.\n\nSchedule 3—Certificate of analysis of article\n\nRegulation 8\n\n**Food Act 1984**\n\nFood (Forms and Registration) Regulations 2025\n\nCERTIFICATE OF ANALYSIS OF ARTICLE\n\nI, [*insert full name*]\n\nof [*insert address*],\n\na person authorized under the **Food Act 1984** to undertake this type of analysis, certify the matters set out below.\n\n(1) On [*insert date of receipt of sample of article*] I received from [*insert name and address of person submitting sample of article*]\n\na sample—\n\n*sealed and with seal intact\n\n*with seal broken\n\n*unsealed\n\nand marked [*insert marking*].\n\n(2) I have *analysed the sample/supervised the analysis of the sample.\n\n(3) The result of the analysis is as follows:\n\n[*insert analytical results*].\n\n*(4) I am of the opinion that no change has taken place in the constitution of the sample which would affect the proportion of any constituent set out above.\n\n[*If there is a prescribed apparatus to be used or method to be observed, insert the following:*]\n\n*I declare that I have used the prescribed apparatus or observed the prescribed method. [*Insert details of prescribed apparatus or method.*]\n\nSignature of analyst:\n\nLaboratory:\n\nDate:\n\n*Delete if not applicable.\n\nSchedule 4—Certificate of registration of food premises\n\nRegulation 9\n\n**Food Act 1984**\n\nFood (Forms and Registration) Regulations 2025\n\nCERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION OF FOOD PREMISES\n\nRegistration authority: [*insert name*]\n\nThis certificate of registration is granted to [*insert full name and address of person(s) in whose name the premises are registered under section 40(1) of the* **Food Act 1984**].\n\nThe registration continues in force until [*insert date of expiry of registration*].\n\nName of food business (if any):\n\nDescription of food business:\n\nAddress of food premises:\n\nClass of food premises:\n\nRegistration authority: [*signature*]\n\nDate:\n\nSchedule 5—Records of registration of food premises\n\nRegulation 10\n\nNumber of registration:\n\nDate of application for registration, or renewal of registration, of food premises:\n\nName and address of proprietor(s):\n\nName of food business (if any):\n\nAddress of food premises:\n\nDescription of food business:\n\nDate of initial registration of food premises:\n\nDate(s) of renewal of registration of food premises (if applicable):\n\nConditions (if any) of registration of food premises:\n\n═════════════\n\nEndnotes\n\n1 General information\n\nSee [www.legislation.vic.gov.au](http://www.legislation.vic.gov.au) for Victorian Bills, Acts and current Versions of legislation and up-to-date legislative information.\n\nThe Food (Forms and Registration) Regulations 2025, S.R. No. 96/2025 were made on 30 September 2025 by the Lieutenant-Governor as the Governor's deputy, with the advice of the Executive Council, under section 63 of the **Food Act 1984**, No. 10082/1984 and came into operation on 17 November 2025: regulation 3.\n\nThe Food (Forms and Registration) Regulations 2025 will sunset 10 years after the day of making on 17 November 2035 (see section 5 of the **Subordinate Legislation Act 1994**).\n\nINTERPRETATION OF LEGISLATION ACT 1984 (ILA)\n\nStyle changes\n\nSection 54A of the ILA authorises the making of the style changes set out in Schedule 1 to that Act.\n\nReferences to ILA s. 39B\n\nSidenotes which cite ILA s. 39B refer to section 39B of the ILA which provides that where an undivided regulation, rule or clause of a Schedule is amended by the insertion of one or more subregulations, subrules or subclauses the original regulation, rule or clause becomes subregulation, subrule or subclause (1) and is amended by the insertion of the expression \"(1)\" at the beginning of the original regulation, rule or clause.\n\nInterpretation\n\nAs from 1 January 2001, amendments to section 36 of the ILA have the following effects:\n\n• Headings\n\nAll headings included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after  \n1 January 2001 form part of that Statutory Rule. Any heading inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Statutory Rule.  \nThis includes headings to Parts, Divisions or Subdivisions in a Schedule; Orders; Parts into which an Order is divided; clauses; regulations; rules; items; tables; columns; examples; diagrams; notes or forms.  \nSee section 36(1A)(2A)(2B).\n\n• Examples, diagrams or notes\n\nAll examples, diagrams or notes included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Statutory Rule. Any examples, diagrams or notes inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, form part of that Statutory Rule. See section 36(3A).\n\n• Punctuation\n\nAll punctuation included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after  \n1 January 2001 forms part of that Statutory Rule. Any punctuation inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Statutory Rule.  \nSee section 36(3B).\n\n• Provision numbers\n\nAll provision numbers included in a Statutory Rule form part of that Statutory Rule, whether inserted in the Statutory Rule before, on or after  \n1 January 2001. Provision numbers include regulation numbers, rule numbers, subregulation numbers, subrule numbers, paragraphs and subparagraphs. See section 36(3C).\n\n• Location of \"legislative items\"\n\nA \"legislative item\" is a penalty, an example or a note. As from 13 October 2004, a legislative item relating to a provision of a Statutory Rule is taken to be at the foot of that provision even if it is preceded or followed by another legislative item that relates to that provision. For example, if a penalty at the foot of a provision is followed by a note, both of these legislative items will be regarded as being at the foot of that provision. See section 36B.\n\n• Other material\n\nAny explanatory memorandum, table of provisions, endnotes, index and other material printed after the Endnotes does not form part of a Statutory Rule. See section 36(3)(3D)(3E).\n\n2 Table of Amendments\n\nThere are no amendments made to the Food (Forms and Registration) Regulations 2025 by statutory rules, subordinate instruments and Acts.\n\n3 Explanatory details\n\n1. Reg. 4: S.R. No. 132/2015. [↑](#endnote-ref-1)","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[],"contradictions":[]},"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Scope cannot be meaningfully assessed as the substantive content of the regulations was not included in the provided text. Based on title alone, the regulations appear to serve a narrow, administrative purpose consistent with their name — prescribing forms and registration processes under food safety law — suggesting no obvious scope drift."},"complexity_factors":["Insufficient legislative content provided — only metadata and version history were included in the text","Title suggests administrative/procedural regulations (forms and registration), which are typically straightforward in nature","Forms-based regulations generally have low interpretive complexity as they prescribe specific administrative steps","Likely subsidiary legislation dependent on a parent Food Act, adding a layer of cross-referencing complexity","Jurisdiction unclear from text provided (could be Commonwealth, State, or Territory)"],"plain_english_summary":"Likely prescribes the official forms and registration rules food businesses must use under the parent Food Act — covering applications, notifications, and who must register. It affects food businesses, handlers, premises operators, manufacturers and importers required to register or report to authorities.\n\nThis matters because using the wrong forms or failing to register can make operations unlawful and risk enforcement action. (Note: the actual regulatory text was not provided, so specifics are unavailable.)"},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"On its face the instrument replaces and standardises the forms required under the Food Act 1984 and revokes the 2015 Regulations (reg 1; reg 4). It prescribes templates and particulars (regs 6–10; Schedules 1–5) and fixes procedural details (7‑day deadline), but does not itself create new substantive powers or extend the Act's legal reach. Any change in regulatory scope would arise from amendments to the Food Act rather than from these forms."},"complexity_factors":["Direct cross‑references to multiple provisions of the Food Act 1984 (s.24, s.26(1), s.31, s.31A(3)(a), s.40(1), s.43(1)) require users to consult primary legislation to understand legal effects (regs 6–10).","Five detailed schedules contain the operative forms and notices (Schedules 1–5), so practical compliance depends on following prescribed templates rather than freeform statements (Schedules 1–5).","A short statutory time limit for court applications (7 days) is embedded in the forms and notes, creating a strict procedural deadline for persons with seized articles (Schedule 1 IMPORTANT NOTICE; Schedule 2 Notes 1).","Magnates' Court review of 'reasonable grounds' by authorised officers introduces a legal test to be adjudicated in proceedings (Schedule 2 Notes 3(a)–(b)).","Certificates require authorised persons and may reference prescribed apparatus or methods, creating technical compliance obligations for laboratories and analysts (Schedule 3).","Revocation of the 2015 Regulations shifts administrative practice and may require transitional updates to local registration systems (reg 4; Endnotes).","Interpretation and style rules in endnotes (references to the Interpretation of Legislation Act) affect how headings, notes and punctuation are to be read as part of the instrument (Endnotes, 'Interpretation').","A 10‑year sunset date is noted (Endnotes), introducing a fixed review/renewal horizon for the instrument (Endnotes)."],"plain_english_summary":"These Regulations set out the official forms and the information to be recorded under the Food Act 1984 — for seized or detained food, applications to the Magistrates' Court to release detained items, laboratory analysis certificates, certificates of registration and registration records — and replace the 2015 forms. They take effect on 17 November 2025. They affect authorised officers, food business proprietors, laboratories and registration authorities by standardising paperwork, imposing a 7‑day deadlines for court applications and specifying required particulars and certificates."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation maintains its original narrow purpose of prescribing forms and registration particulars. It replaces the 2015 Regulations without expanding into substantive food safety standards or enforcement powers."},"complexity_factors":["Only 1 defined term ('the Act')","No cross-references between operative provisions—each regulation stands alone","No conditional logic or exceptions; straightforward 'fill in the blank' form prescriptions","Linear structure: 10 regulations, each 1-2 sentences long","Schedules consist entirely of blank forms with instructional notes"],"plain_english_summary":"This legislation is a set of rules made under Victoria's Food Act 1984 that standardises the paperwork used by food safety officers and businesses. It provides five official forms: (1) a notice used when an authorised officer seizes food or equipment suspected of breaching food safety laws; (2) an application form for businesses to ask a court to release seized items within 7 days; (3) a certificate for laboratory analysis of food samples; (4) a registration certificate for food premises (like restaurants or cafes); and (5) a record-keeping template for registration details. The Regulations revoke (cancel) the 2015 version and take effect on 17 November 2025. Essentially, this is administrative housekeeping—it ensures everyone uses the same forms when enforcing food safety laws or registering food businesses."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/food-forms-and-registration-regulations-2025","history":"/api/acts/food-forms-and-registration-regulations-2025/history","analysis":"/api/acts/food-forms-and-registration-regulations-2025/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/food-forms-and-registration-regulations-2025/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/food-forms-and-registration-regulations-2025/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/food-forms-and-registration-regulations-2025/documents"}}