FOOD ACT 1984 - SECT 50AB Evidentiary certificate signed by chief executive officer of a council

FOOD ACT 1984 - SECT 50AB

In any proceeding for an offence against this Act, a certificate signed by the chief executive officer of a council stating any of the following matters is evidence of the matter—

        (a)     a stated document is one of the following things made, given or issued under this Act—

S. 50AB(a)(i) amended by No. 29/2011 s. 3(Sch. 1 item 40.3).

              (i)     an appointment, authorisation, exemption, declaration or other decision;

              (ii)     an order or a notice, direction or requirement;

              (iii)     a registration;

              (iv)     a record or an extract from a record;

              (v)     a register or an extract from a register;

        (b)     a stated document is a copy of a thing referred to in paragraph (a);

        (c)     on a stated day, or during a stated period, a stated person was or was not the holder of a registration;

        (d)     on a stated day, or during a stated period, a registration—

              (i)     was or was not in force; or

              (ii)     was or was not subject to a stated condition;

        (e)     on a stated day, or during a stated period, a registration was suspended;

        (f)     on a stated day a registration was cancelled, varied, transferred or surrendered;

        (g)     on a stated day, or during a stated period, an appointment as an authorized officer was, or was not, in force for a stated person;

        (h)     on a stated day, a stated person was given a stated order, notice or direction under this Act;

              (i)     on a stated day, a stated requirement was made of a stated person;

S. 50AB(j) amended by No. 2/2017 s. 9(1).

        (j)     a stated amount is payable under this Act by a stated person and has not been paid;

S. 50AB(k) inserted by No. 2/2017 s. 9(2).

        (k)     a statement referred to in section 18D(1)(a) or 18F(1)(a), or a photograph of that statement, attached to the certificate was displayed on a stated day or during a stated period at a stated chain food premises or chain supermarket;

S. 50AB(l) inserted by No. 2/2017 s. 9(2).

        (l)     a menu or food label referred to in section 18D(1)(b) or 18F(1)(b), or a photograph of that menu or food label, attached to the certificate was a menu or food label in relation to a stated standard food item sold by a food business operating a stated chain food premises or chain supermarket on a stated day or during a stated period.

S. 50AC inserted by No. 46/2008 s. 258, substituted by No. 60/2012 s. 64, amended by Nos 2/2017 s. 16(13), 38/2020 s. 45.