Food Act 2001
85Request for reinspection
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85 Request for reinspection (1) This section applies to the proprietor of a food business on whom a prohibition order has been served if the proprietor considers that the food business complies with this Act. (2) The proprietor may, in writing, ask the chief health officer to arrange for an authorised officer to reinspect the things in relation to which the prohibition order was served. (3) If the request relates to a vehicle or equipment, the vehicle or equipment must be made available for reinspection where it was originally inspected or at another place agreed to by an authorised (4) If, through no fault of the proprietor, an authorised officer does not make the reinspection within the relevant period, a clearance certificate for the prohibition order is taken to have been given to the proprietor. (5) Subsection (4) does not prevent an improvement notice or another prohibition order being served on the proprietor in relation to the same premises, equipment or anything else. (6) In this section: relevant period means 48 hours from the receipt by the chief health officer of the request for reinspection.