MEAT INDUSTRY ACT 1993 - SECT 1 Purposes

MEAT INDUSTRY ACT 1993 - SECT 1

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;

S. 1(da) inserted by No. 24/2003 s. 62.

        (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.