FOOD ACT 2008 - SECT 107

FOOD ACT 2008 - SECT 107

107 .         Notification of conduct of food businesses

        (1)         The proprietor of a food business must not conduct the food business at any premises unless the proprietor has given written notification in respect of those premises to the appropriate enforcement agency, in the approved form, of the specified information.

        Penalty:

            (a)         for an individual — a fine of $10 000;

            (b)         for a body corporate — a fine of $50 000.

        (2)         In subsection (1) —

        specified information means the information specified in the Food Safety Standards that is to be notified to the appropriate enforcement agency before the food business is conducted.

        (3)         Subject to subsection (4), the notification must be accompanied by the fee, if any, prescribed by the regulations.

        (4)         If the appropriate enforcement agency is a local government —

            (a)         any fee prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of subsection (3) does not apply to notification given to the agency under this section; and

            (b)         the fee for notification given to the agency under this section may be imposed and recovered by the agency under the Local Government Act 1995 Part 6 Division 5 Subdivision 2.