Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

IMPORTED FOOD CONTROL ACT 1992 - SECT 11

             (1)  An application for a food control certificate must:

                     (a)  be made in a manner prescribed by the regulations; and

                     (b)  be made by an owner of the food to which the application relates; and

                     (c)  be given or communicated to an authorised officer; and

                     (d)  contain such information as the regulations provide.

             (2)  The regulations may provide that an entry of goods under section 71A of the Customs Act for home consumption or warehousing that is communicated to Customs by computer is to be taken, to the extent that that entry relates to examinable food, to be an application for a food control certificate for the purposes of subsection (1).

             (3)  If the regulations make provision in accordance with subsection (2) in relation to a computer entry under the Customs Act, the application so made is taken to have been communicated to an authorised officer at the time when it is taken to have been communicated to Customs under the Customs Act.