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Meat Industry Act 1993
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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.