Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Food Act 1984 - SECT 32

Councils to submit samples for analysis

32. Councils to submit samples for analysis



(1) Subject to this section, every council shall submit for analysis during
each year not less than three samples of food for each thousand persons of the
population of the municipal district so that one quarter of those samples
shall be submitted for analysis in every quarter of each year.

(2) Every analyst making an analysis for a council under this section shall
report to the council forthwith after the end of each quarter the number of
analyses so made by him during that quarter and specify the result of each
analysis.

(3) Every report received by a council from an analyst under this section
shall be presented at the next ordinary meeting of the council held after the
receipt of that report.

(4) The Secretary may in writing exempt a Council from compliance with
subsection (1) on any terms or conditions that the Secretary determines
including, but not limited to, a requirement that a Council must arrange for
specified surveys to be conducted of the standard of food premises within its
municipal district and of the food prepared at them.