Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Meat Industry Act 1993 - SECT 11

Contents of program

11. Contents of program



(1) A quality assurance program must provide for the following-

   (a)  strategies to ensure that, subject to paragraph (d), the standards
        required by this Act and the regulations are maintained at the
        facility;

   (b)  that the facilities (including the construction and operation of the
        facilities) to which it applies are to comply with any applicable Code
        of Practice for the time being approved by the Minister and specified
        in the program;

   (c)  strategies for implementing any applicable approved Code;

   (d)  exempting the licensee from compliance with any requirement of this
        Act or the regulations relating to inspection or branding, to the
        extent that the requirement is inconsistent with the program;

   (e)  exempting the licensee from compliance with the regulations relating
        to any other matter covered by the program;

   (f)  strategies for monitoring compliance with the program;

   (g)  written records of checks and inspections made by the licensee;

   (h)  in the case of a declared facility, strategies for the training of the
        staff at the facility in food handling.

(2) A quality assurance program may contain any other provision agreed between
the Authority and the licensee.

(3) A licensee is exempt from a requirement of this Act or the regulations to
the extent provided in an approved quality assurance program under subsection
(1)(d) or (e).

(4) In the case of a declared facility, if food other than unmixed or
manufactured meat is produced, processed or sold at the facility, the quality
assurance program must, in respect of that other food, do all of the things
listed in section 19D of the Food Act 1984.