31AInterstate analysts

31A Interstate analysts (1) A natural person who has been authorised or approved under a corresponding law to carry out analyses for the purposes of that corresponding law (an ***interstate analyst***) is taken to be authorised under section 30 to carry out analyses for the purposes of this Act subject to any conditions of the authorisation under the corresponding law. (2) However, an interstate analyst is not required to be included in the list of persons required to be maintained by the Secretary under section 30(6). (3) An analysis of an article by an interstate analyst is not an analysis for the purpose of this Act unless the interstate analyst— (a) supplies to the person submitting the article a certificate in the prescribed form setting out the result of the analysis; and (b) if any apparatus to be used or method to be observed has been prescribed, uses that apparatus and observes that method accordingly and declares that this has been done in the certificate; and (c) if the article is a food sample submitted for analysis under section 32(1), includes the result of the analysis in a report submitted in accordance with section 32(2). S. 32 amended by Nos 12/1989 s. 4(1)(Sch. 2 item 47.7), 13/1994 s. 8, 98/1997 s. 16(a), substituted by No. 42/2009 s. 37.