sec.140BExisting licences

sec.140B Existing licences

This section applies to a person who, immediately before the commencement, held a licence under the repealed Act. The person, on the commencement, is taken to be the holder of an accreditation for the same business in the dairy industry as the licence authorised. The parts of the person’s Quality Assurance Program about food safety issues are taken to be the person’s food safety program. Safe Food must review the person’s food safety program within 1 year after the commencement to decide if the person’s program is an approved program. Until Safe Food reviews the food safety program, the program is taken to be the approved program for the accreditation. If the licence held by the person immediately before the commencement was subject to a restriction or condition, the accreditation the person is taken to hold on the commencement is also taken to be subject to a condition in the same terms, so far as practicable, as the restriction or condition. The accreditation the person is taken to hold ends, unless sooner cancelled or suspended, on the earlier of the following days— the day the balance of the licence period ends; if Safe Food grants an accreditation under section 48, the day the accreditation is granted. If Safe Food grants an accreditation before the licence period ends, Safe Food must refund the person the proportion of the licence fee paid for any unused part of the licence period for which the fee was paid. In this section— balance of the licence period means the part of the licence period after the commencement. licence period , for a licence, means the period for which the licence was granted under the repealed Act, starting on the day the licence was granted. Quality Assurance Program means a program approved by the former authority under the repealed Act. s 140B ins 2002 No. 49 s 27 amd 2004 Act No. 53 s 2 sch (sec.140B-ssec.1) This section applies to a person who, immediately before the commencement, held a licence under the repealed Act. (sec.140B-ssec.2) The person, on the commencement, is taken to be the holder of an accreditation for the same business in the dairy industry as the licence authorised. (sec.140B-ssec.3) The parts of the person’s Quality Assurance Program about food safety issues are taken to be the person’s food safety program. (sec.140B-ssec.4) Safe Food must review the person’s food safety program within 1 year after the commencement to decide if the person’s program is an approved program. (sec.140B-ssec.5) Until Safe Food reviews the food safety program, the program is taken to be the approved program for the accreditation. (sec.140B-ssec.6) If the licence held by the person immediately before the commencement was subject to a restriction or condition, the accreditation the person is taken to hold on the commencement is also taken to be subject to a condition in the same terms, so far as practicable, as the restriction or condition. (sec.140B-ssec.7) The accreditation the person is taken to hold ends, unless sooner cancelled or suspended, on the earlier of the following days— the day the balance of the licence period ends; if Safe Food grants an accreditation under section 48, the day the accreditation is granted. (sec.140B-ssec.8) If Safe Food grants an accreditation before the licence period ends, Safe Food must refund the person the proportion of the licence fee paid for any unused part of the licence period for which the fee was paid. (sec.140B-ssec.9) In this section— balance of the licence period means the part of the licence period after the commencement. licence period , for a licence, means the period for which the licence was granted under the repealed Act, starting on the day the licence was granted. Quality Assurance Program means a program approved by the former authority under the repealed Act.