Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Meat Industry Act 1993 - SECT 1

PART 1 PRELIMINARY

Purposes

1. Purposes

The purposes of this Act are-

   (a)  to set standards for meat production for human consumption and pet
        food;

   (b)  to set up a licensing and inspection system and a mechanism for
        adopting and implementing quality assurance programs to ensure that
        those standards are maintained;

   (c)  to enable the regulation of meat transport vehicles;

   (d)  to establish the Victorian Meat Authority to operate that licensing
        and inspection system and arrange for the adoption and monitoring of
        quality assurance programs;

   (da) to empower the Authority to perform the functions conferred on it by
        the Seafood Safety Act 2003;

   (e)  to repeal the Abattoir and Meat Inspection Act 1973, the Poultry
        Processing Act 1968 and the Abattoir and Meat Inspection
        (Arrangements) Act 1987;

   (f)  to repeal or amend various other Acts.