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IMPORTED FOOD CONTROL ACT 1992 - SECT 18

Foreign government certificates

             (1)  The Secretary may determine, in writing, that a certificate issued by an instrumentality of a specified foreign government stating that food of a specified kind meets applicable standards and does not pose a risk to human health is a recognised foreign government certificate.

             (2)  The Secretary may revoke a determination under subsection (1) if the Secretary has reason to doubt the continued reliability of a statement made in any certificate to which the determination relates.

             (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.



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