11Contents of program

11 Contents of program (1) A quality assurance program must provide for the following— (a) strategies to ensure that, subject to paragraph (d), the standards required by this Act and the regulations are maintained at the facility; (b) that the facilities (including the construction and operation of the facilities) to which it applies are to comply with any applicable Code of Practice for the time being approved by the Minister and specified in the program; (c) strategies for implementing any applicable approved Code; (d) exempting the licensee from compliance with any requirement of this Act or the regulations relating to inspection or branding, to the extent that the requirement is inconsistent with the program; (e) exempting the licensee from compliance with the regulations relating to any other matter covered by the program; (f) strategies for monitoring compliance with the program; (g) written records of checks and inspections made by the licensee; S. 11(1)(h) inserted by No. 98/1997 s. 28(1). (h) in the case of a declared facility, strategies for the training of the staff at the facility in food handling. (2) A quality assurance program may contain any other provision agreed between the Authority and the licensee. (3) A licensee is exempt from a requirement of this Act or the regulations to the extent provided in an approved quality assurance program under subsection (1)(d) or (e). S. 11(4) inserted by No. 98/1997 s. 28(2), amended by No. 24/2003 s. 65. (4) In the case of a declared facility, if food other than unmixed or manufactured meat is produced, processed or sold at the facility, the quality assurance program must, in respect of that other food, do all of the things listed in section 19D of the **Food Act 1984**.