FOOD ACT 2003 - SECT 106C
Appointment of food safety supervisor for premises
FOOD ACT 2003 - SECT 106C
Appointment of food safety supervisor for premises
106C Appointment of food safety supervisor for premises
(1) The proprietor of a food business must ensure that before any food to
which this Division applies is processed and sold by retail on premises in the
course of carrying on the business at least one food safety supervisor has
been appointed for the premises.
(2) The proprietor of a food business must
ensure that at all times at which food to which this Division applies is
processed and sold by retail on premises in the course of carrying on the
food business there continues to be at least one person appointed as food
safety supervisor for the premises.
(3) It is a defence to a prosecution for
an offence against subsection (2) if the proprietor of the food business
concerned establishes that--
(a) a person had been appointed as food safety
supervisor for the relevant premises but had ceased to be appointed as food
safety supervisor, and
(b) after that person had ceased to be so appointed
and before the appointment (if any) of another person as food safety
supervisor for the premises, food to which this Division applies was processed
and sold by retail on the premises on not more than 30 days (whether or not
consecutive).
(4) This section does not apply to a food business that is a
mobile catering business.
: Maximum penalty--50 penalty units in the case of
an individual and 100 penalty units in the case of a corporation.