Victorian Current Acts

DAIRY ACT 2000 - SECT 47

    (1)     Despite anything in section 48, if an authorised officer has seized or detained any dairy food under this Act which in the opinion of the authorised officer is decayed, deteriorated or putrefied or in respect of which the owner consents to the destruction or other disposal thereof, the authorised officer may—

        (a)     destroy or otherwise dispose of the dairy food; or

        (b)     if the owner of the dairy food has so requested, permit that person to destroy or otherwise dispose of the dairy food—

in accordance with procedures approved from time to time in writing by the Authority.

    (2)     If any dairy food is seized or detained under this Act—

        (a)     in respect of which an application for release under section 48 has not been made; or

        (b)     which is treated, destroyed or otherwise disposed of or dealt with under section 48(4) or subsection (1)(a) as the case may be—

the owner of the dairy food is liable to pay the costs and expenses incurred in or in connection with the storage, treatment, destruction or other disposal of or dealing with the dairy food.