Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991.
An Act establishing a body to be known as Food Standards Australia New Zealand with functions relating to the development of food regulatory measures, and for related purposes. |
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| FAOLEX Id:
| LEX-FAOC044291 |
| Countries:
| Australia |
| Regions:
| OCEANIA;Australia and New Zealand;South Pacific;Indian Ocean |
| Territorial Subdivision:
| Commonwealth |
| Date of original Text:
| 27/06/1991 |
| Date of Consolidation:
| 28/12/2008 |
| Implemented by:
| LEX-FAOC045137 Food Standards Australia New Zealand Regulations. 01/10/2007 |
| Related Web Site:
| www.austlii.edu.au |
| Type of Text:
| Legislation |
| Abstract:
| The body known immediately before the commencement of this subsection as the National Food Authority is continued in existence as the Australia New Zealand Food Authority. The Authority is a body corporate with perpetual succession. The functions of the Authority include: (a) to prepare draft standards and draft variations of standards and to make recommendations to the Council in respect of those draft standards or draft variations; (b) in accordance with this Act, to develop draft codes of practice and draft variations of codes of practice for industry and to review codes of practice; (c) to develop guidelines to assist the interpretation of the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code on its own initiative or in consultation; (d) to review standards; (e) in consultation with the States and Territories, or on its own initiative, to coordinate the surveillance by the States, the Territories and any other bodies or persons of food available in Australia; and (f) to develop codes of practice for industry (in Australia and in New Zealand) on any matter that may be included in a standard (sect. 7). Powers of the Authority are outlined in section 8. Section 9 outlines matters that may be included in standards and variations of standards, whereas section 10 lays down the priority of objectives of the Authority in developing standards and variations of standards. Sections 12 to 39 make provisions for matters relating to applications for development or variation of a standard. The remaining provisions of the Act deal with internal matters of the Authority. (72 sections) |
| Comment:
| Consolidated version of Act No. 118 of 1991 as at 28 December 2008 and amended last by Act No. 98 of 2007. The amendments introduced by Act No. 170 are consequential to the enactment of the Gene Technology Act 2000. |
| Main subjects:
| Food |
