140Responsibilities of local shellfish committees

140 Responsibilities of local shellfish committees

140 Responsibilities of local shellfish committees

(1) A local committee is responsible for the following—

(a) administering, under the direction of the Food Authority, the local program for the area for which the committee is appointed, including—

(i) advising the Food Authority, and licence holders in the local area who harvest, collect or depurate shellfish, when the environmental conditions set out in the local program that must be met before shellfish may be harvested, collected or depurated are not satisfied, and

(ii) coordinating the collection and analysis, at the expense of the local program, of samples of the environment in which the shellfish are grown, harvested or collected, in accordance with the plan for the management of harvest areas within the local area, and additional sampling requirements of the Food Authority, and

(iii) ensuring each analysis carried out for the local program is carried out in a laboratory approved by the National Association of Testing Authorities, or by the Food Authority, for the particular type of analysis to be undertaken,

(b) communicating and consulting with the NSW Shellfish Committee, the Food Authority and persons who harvest farmed shellfish, collect wild shellfish, cultivate or depurate shellfish or cultivate spat,

(c) determining annually, in consultation with persons required to comply with the local program, the total projected administration and operational costs of the local program, including the cost of maintaining the local committee,

(d) advising the Food Authority, before 1 August in each year, of the costs referred to in paragraph (c),

(e) preparing and lodging to the Food Authority, before 1 August in each year, a report on the local committee’s operations, including the following—

(i) the level of participation in the local program,

(ii) an account of the finances of the committee,

(iii) other matters the NSW Shellfish Committee notifies as required for inclusion in the report.

(2) A local committee must nominate one or more of the committee’s members to assist in the day to day operation of the local program under the general direction of the Food Authority.