Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Food Act 1984 - SECT 15

Sale of unfit equipment or packaging or labelling material

15. Sale of unfit equipment or packaging or labelling material



(1) A person must not sell equipment that if used for the purposes for which
it was designed or intended to be used-

   (a)  would render or be likely to render food unsafe; or

   (b)  would put other equipment, or would be likely to put other equipment,
        in such a condition that, if the other equipment were used for the
        purposes for which it was designed or intended to be used, it would
        render, or be likely to render, food unsafe.

Penalty: $40 000 in the case of an individual and $200 000 in the case of a
corporation.

(2) A person must not sell packaging or labelling material that if used for
the purposes for which it was designed or intended to be used would render or
be likely to render food unsafe.

Penalty: $40 000 in the case of an individual and $200 000 in the case of a
corporation.