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MEAT INDUSTRY ACT 1993 - SECT 40 Unlicensed facilities

MEAT INDUSTRY ACT 1993 - SECT 40

Unlicensed facilities

    (1)     A person must not operate a meat processing facility of any kind unless the person is licensed to operate that facility.

Penalty:     First offence 100 penalty units.

Subsequent offence 500 penalty units or 24 months imprisonment or both.

S. 40(2) amended by No. 40/2019 s. 62(1).

    (2)     A person must not sell by retail meat for pet food at a place or vehicle that is not a meat processing facility licensed for that purpose.

Penalty:     First offence 100 penalty units.

Subsequent offence 500 penalty units or 24 months imprisonment or both.

    (3)     Subsection (1) does not apply to the operator of a meat processing facility nominated under section 25(1) or (2) or section 26.

S. 40(3A) inserted by No. 40/2019 s. 62(2).

    (3A)     A person does not commit an offence under subsection (1) if the meat processing facility solely processes game that is not intended for sale.

    (4)     For the purposes of subsection (1), a person must not be taken to be the operator of a meat processing facility if the person—

        (a)     is the owner of the premises at which the facility is located; and

        (b)     has granted a lease or licence of those premises as a meat processing facility; and

        (c)     has no interest in the facility otherwise than as a lessor or licensor of the premises; and

        (d)     takes no part in the management of the facility.