MEAT INDUSTRY ACT 1993 - SECT 13A Codes of Practice

MEAT INDUSTRY ACT 1993 - SECT 13A

    (1)     The Authority may make Codes of Practice in accordance with this Part.

    (2)     A Code of Practice must be approved by the Minister before it is made.

    (3)     A Code of Practice may apply, adopt or incorporate any matter contained in any document, code, standard, rule, specification or method formulated, issued, prescribed or published by any authority or body whether—

        (a)     wholly or partially or as amended by the Code of Practice; or

        (b)     as formulated, issued, prescribed or published at the time the Code of Practice is made or at any time before then; or

        (c)     as formulated, issued, prescribed or published from time to time.

    (4)     If a Code of Practice has applied, adopted or incorporated any matter contained in any document, code, standard, rule, specification or method as formulated, issued, prescribed or published from time to time and that document, code, standard, rule, specification or method is at any time amended, until the Authority causes notice to be published in the Government Gazette of that amendment, the document, code, standard, rule, specification or method is to be taken not to have been so amended.

    (5)     A Code of Practice may—

        (a)     confer a discretionary authority or impose a duty on a specified person or body or a specified class of persons and bodies;

        (b)     leave any matter or thing to be from time to time determined, applied, dispensed with or regulated by the Authority;

        (c)     authorise an officer or employee of the Authority to enforce the Code of Practice.

S. 13B inserted by No. 24/2003 s. 66.