18AFood safety management certificates

18A Food safety management certificates

(1) The Secretary may determine, in writing, that, for food of a specified kind, a specified certificate issued by a specified person or specified body is a recognised food safety management certificate.

Note 1: The regulations deal with when food of such a kind is taken to be failing food because the food is not covered by a recognised food safety management certificate.

Note 2: See section 35B for how a determination may refer to a kind of food.

Note 3: For variation and revocation of the determination, see subsection 33(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.

Note 4: For specification by class, see subsection 33(3AB) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.

(2) The Secretary must, in writing, make guidelines that the Secretary must have regard to before making a determination under subsection (1).

Note: For variation and revocation of the guidelines, see subsection 33(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.

Offence (3) A person must not forge, or utter, knowing it to be forged, a certificate of the kind referred to in subsection (1).

Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.

Status of instruments (4) The following are not legislative instruments: (a) a determination under subsection (1); (b) guidelines under subsection (2). Publication of instruments (5) The Secretary must publish the following on the Department’s website: (a) a determination under subsection (1); (b) guidelines under subsection (2). Definitions (6) For the purposes of this section, forge and utter have the meanings given by section 19A.