1Purposes

1 Purposes The purposes of this Act are— (a) to set standards for meat production for human consumption and pet food; (b) to set up a licensing and inspection system and a mechanism for adopting and implementing quality assurance programs to ensure that those standards are maintained; (c) to enable the regulation of meat transport vehicles; (d) to establish the Victorian Meat Authority to operate that licensing and inspection system and arrange for the adoption and monitoring of quality assurance programs; S. 1(da) inserted by No. 24/2003 s. 62. (da) to empower the Authority to perform the functions conferred on it by the **Seafood Safety Act 2003**; (e) to repeal **the Abattoir and Meat Inspection Act 1973**, the **Poultry Processing Act 1968** and the **Abattoir and Meat Inspection (Arrangements) Act 1987**; (f) to repeal or amend various other Acts.