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Food Act 2004
118Onus to prove certain matters on defendant
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118 Onus to prove certain matters on defendant If a person who was responsible for making a statement on a package or in an advertisement relating to the origin or composition of food or the therapeutic or nutritive properties of the effect of food is prosecuted for an offence against this Act or the Regulations relating to the false description of the food because of the statement, the onus of proving the correctness of the statement is on the defendant.