Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

IMPORTED FOOD CONTROL REGULATIONS 2019 - REG 8

Manner of application

  (1)   For the purposes of paragraph   11(1)(a) of the Act, an application for a food control certificate must be in a form approved by the Secretary.

Information in application

  (2)   For the purposes of paragraph   11(1)(d) of the Act, an application for a food control certificate must:

  (a)   contain the following information about the importer and the importation of the food:

  (i)   the name of the vessel on which the food is imported;

  (ii)   details of the port of loading of the vessel;

  (iii)   the date on which the food is, or is to be, landed in Australia;

  (iv)   the name and address, and contact details, of the importer and of the importer's agent (if any) in relation to the importation; and

  (b)   contain the following information about the food:

  (i)   its description;

  (ii)   its country of origin;

  (iii)   details of its producer, manufacturer or packer;

  (iv)   its brand name;

  (v)   the number of consignments covered by the importation and the number of batches in each consignment;

  (vi)   details of lot or batch codes in relation to each consignment and the number of lots or packages in each batch;

  (vii)   the total weight of each consignment;

  (viii)   the weight of each lot or package in each batch;

  (ix)   details of a place at which the applicant considers each consignment may be inspected or inspected and analysed.

Interaction with the Customs Act 1901

  (3)   For the purposes of subsection   11(2) of the Act, an entry of goods covered by a declaration under section   71A or 71DH of the Customs Act 1901 for home consumption or warehousing that is communicated to the Immigration and Border Protection Department by computer is to be taken, to the extent that that entry relates to examinable food, to be an application for a food control certificate for the purposes of subsection   11(1) of the Act.