Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Meat Industry Act 1993 - SECT 40

Unlicensed facilities

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.

(2) A person must not sell by retail meat for pet food at a place 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.

(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.