Queensland Consolidated Acts

FOOD ACT 2006 - SECT 262

262 Chief executive may make guidelines

(1) The chief executive may make guidelines to provide guidance to local governments, persons who carry on a food business and members of the public about matters relating to the administration of this Act.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1) , a guideline may be about the following matters—

(a) food safety in non-profit or other food businesses;

(b) the assessment of applications for a licence;

(c) monitoring and enforcement of the Act ;

(d) the expertise and experience required for a person to be an authorised person;

(e) the appointment of authorised persons;

(f) the skills and knowledge required for a person to be a food safety supervisor;

(g) the exchange of information and reports between local governments and the chief executive about the administration of this Act;

(h) the conduct and frequency of audits;

(i) fees charged by local governments under this Act.

(3) The chief executive may—

(a) make a guideline by adopting another entity’s guideline with or without changes; and

(b) amend a guideline when the chief executive considers it appropriate.

(4) Before making or amending a guideline, the chief executive must take reasonable steps to allow entities the chief executive considers may have an interest in the proposed guideline or amendment to give the chief executive written submissions about it.

Example—

The chief executive might publish a notice in a newspaper seeking submissions about a proposed guideline.