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Food Act 1984
7BRole of Department 27
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7B Role of Department 27
7BA Role of Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action 28
7C Annual report on food regulation 28
7D Information required to be provided by councils 30
7E Direction by the Minister 30
Part II—Offences relating to food 32
Division 1—Serious offences relating to food 32
8 Knowingly handling food in unsafe manner 32
8A Handling food in unsafe manner in other circumstances 32
9 Knowingly selling unsafe food 33
9A Sale of unsafe food in other circumstances 33
10 Knowingly falsely describing food 34
10A Falsely describing food in other circumstances 34
Division 2—Other offences relating to food 35
11 Handling and sale of unsafe food 35
12 Handling and sale of unsuitable food 36
13 Misleading conduct relating to sale of food 36
14 Sale of food not complying with purchaser's demand 37
15 Sale of unfit equipment or packaging or labelling material 38
16 Compliance with Food Standards Code 38
17 Proprietor's name to be affixed to premises 40
17A False descriptions of food 40
17B Application of provisions outside jurisdiction 42
Division 3—Defences 42
17C Defence relating to publication of advertisements 42
17D Defence in respect of food for export 42
17E Defence of due diligence 43
17F Defence of mistaken and reasonable belief not available 45
17G Defence in respect of handling food 45
17H Defence in respect of sale of unfit equipment or packaging or labelling material 45
Part IIA—Kilojoule labelling scheme 46
Division 1—Definitions 46
18 Definitions 46
18A What is a *chain food premises*? 48
18B What is a *chain supermarket*? 49
18C What is a *standard food item*? 50
Division 2—Requirement for proprietor of chain food premises to display kilojoule information 52
18D Requirement for proprietor of chain food premises to display kilojoule information 52
18E Chain food premises—manner and location of display of kilojoule information 53
Division 3—Requirement for proprietor of chain supermarket to display kilojoule labelling 54
18F Requirement for proprietor of chain supermarket to display kilojoule information 54
18G Chain supermarket—manner and location of display of kilojoule information 55
Division 4—Exemptions 57
18H Exemptions 57
Part III—Orders 58