FOOD ACT 1984 - SECT 19G Food safety supervisors

FOOD ACT 1984 - SECT 19G

    (1)     A food safety supervisor is a person who, in relation to a food premises—

        (a)     knows how to recognise, prevent and alleviate the hazards associated with the handling of food at, or from, that premises; and

        (b)     has met an appropriate food safety competency standard for premises of the same nature as the premises; and

        (c)     has the ability and the authority to supervise other people handling food at, or from, the premises and to ensure that that handling is done safely.

    (2)     In this section, "food safety competency standard" means a food safety competency standard approved in writing by the Secretary or by a relevant State, national or international statutory or regulatory body.

    (3)     The regulations may specify who the relevant body is in a particular case or set of circumstances.

S. 19GA substituted by No. 42/2009 s. 13.